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Chapter 52 part 1 – The Ootori Group (Corporate Group) (1)

On March 26, 1927, Japan’s financial world was rocked by a major shock.

This was because the Ootori Zaibatsu, using its abundant financial resources, completely absorbed the Suzuki Shouten, which was practically bankrupt, and expanded dramatically—placing at its top a new kind of bank called Ootori FHC, a form that people of the time didn’t quite understand.

Precisely because it was such an unfamiliar structure, the shock was even greater.

However, people adapt.
From then on, Ootori’s core institutional bank came to be called Ootori Holdings, while the zaibatsu side came to be known as the Ootori Group.

The kanji-heavy names that had been so carefully prepared—“Ootori Financial Holding Company” and “Ootori Corporate Group”—ended up being used only as official titles. The Japanese love for foreign words hasn’t changed, neither then nor now.

That said, since many people