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-12- Government, nor the Imperial Household, paid for the stock-which suggests the possibility that the Zaibatsu, in exchange for the right to sit in on the whole credit structure of the country and its official finances, gave to the Government and the Imperial Household 2/3 of the stock. In 1939, 6 families owned 53% of the 38 largest banks, and since 1940 the private banks in Japan have been reduced from 245 to now less than 80, most of which are controlled either directly or indirectly by the Zaibatsu. In the Japan Industrial Bank-a owned about 50% of the stock. supposedly official or quasi-official institution-12 family groups When you look abroad to the external expansion of Japan, it is discovered that Zaibatsu investments proceeded apace with the arms of Japan, or preceded them. In Korea, the large combines owned 83% of all Japanese in- vestments. In Manchuria there were 201 Zaibatsu companies, and 11 non- Zaibatsu. The economic penetration of Manchuria, by the Zaibatsu, did not begin lately nor does the record indicate that it was forced by the Military. Mitsui, Mitsubishi, and others began their in- vestments in the So. Man. R.R., as early as 1907, and the So. Man- churian R.R., as is well-known, was itself the holding company for reaching out into every line of business and endeavor in Man- churia and North China. Of the 85 companies owned or run or "in- vested" by the So. Manchurian R.R., the time of entrance into more than half of them was prior to 1931. With the formation of the cial of the Mitsui interests became President. Central China as well as the No. China Dev. Cos. in 1937, an offi- the concerned, the Zaibatsu investments are in the same category as It is thus our conclusion that as far as foreign assets are the Japanese Govt. investments, and no one will surely that had foreign countries. Moreover the Zaibatsu these periods Govt. of Japan should be compensated for its investments urge in reported, the money they used would seem to manipulation be the money of the grants, subsidies, and tax exemptions and which are immense profits returned to themselves, during and by virtue of Japanese people. amount cern reported of for instance the receipt of exemptions, than four times the On the matter of grants, subsidies, tax one con- money as an outright grant in 1944 more than they paid as

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