A keiretsu is a set of companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings that have dominated the Japanese economy since the second half of the 20th century. In the legal sense, it is a type of informal business group that is loosely in an organized alliance within the social world of Japan's business community. It rose up to replace the zaibatsu system that was dissolved in the occupation of Japan following the Second World War. Though their influence has shrunk since the late 20th century, they continue to be important forces in Japan's economy in the early 21st century.
The Mitsubishi Group is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies in a variety of industries.
Marunouchi (丸の内) is a commercial district located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Situated between Tokyo Station and the Imperial Palace, the name, meaning "inside the circle", derives from its location within the palace's outer moat. It is also Tokyo's financial district and the country's three largest banks are headquartered there.
UFJ, which stands for the United Financial of Japan, is used in the former companies of UFJ Bank, UFJ Group, and UFJ Holdings. These related institutions disappeared after the merger of The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and UFJ Bank in 2005. UFJ Bank itself was established by the merger in 2002 of the Sanwa Bank, Tokai Bank, and Toyo Trust and Banking.
The Senshu Bank, Ltd. is a Japanese bank, headquartered in Kishiwada with 63 branches. It is involved in loaning, credit cards, leasing, and the development and sale of computer software. It is traded on the Osaka Securities Exchange under symbol 8372.
The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. is a trust bank in Japan. It was founded in 2000 and claims to be the first trust bank in Japan to be exclusively engaged in asset administration business.
Mitsubishi Estate Company, Limited is one of the largest real-estate developers in Japan and is involved in property management and architecture research and design.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. is a Japanese bank holding and financial services company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.
MUFG Bank, Ltd. is a Japanese bank. Its headquarters is located in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, and it has 772 domestic branches and 76 overseas branches. It was established on January 1, 2006 through the merger of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd and UFJ Bank Limited. MUFG Bank, along with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and Mizuho Bank, is recognized as one of the three major megabanks in Japan.
The Sanwa Bank, Limited was a major Japanese bank headquartered in Osaka, which operated from 1933 to 2002. It merged with Tokai Bank to form UFJ Bank. In the 1990s, it was the most profitable bank in the world, and second-largest in terms of assets behind its eventual merger partner Tokyo-Mitsubishi.
Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation is the trust banking arm of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, a Japanese financial services group that is the largest in the world measured by assets. The bank is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co., Ltd. (三菱UFJ証券株式会社, Mitsubishi UFJ Shōken Kabushiki Kaisha) is the investment banking arm of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), a financial services company which is the largest in Japan measured by assets. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International plc (MUSI) was a global investment bank headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
Union Bank was an American national bank with 398 branches in California, Washington and Oregon. It was owned by MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation and was acquired by U.S. Bancorp in December 2022. It was headquartered in New York City and had commercial branches in Dallas, Houston, New York and Chicago, in addition to two international offices.
The Sanwa Group was a leading Japanese keiretsu, based in Osaka, between World War II and the Japanese asset price bubble in the early 1990s. It remains in existence as a jointly held company called Midori-kai (みどり会).
Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc., often called MRI, was established at the centennial anniversary of Japan's Mitsubishi Group in 1970, invested by the various companies of the group, and is a Think tank, representative of Japan. It is the consulting firm of Mitsubishi Group and now employs about 900 people.
Mitsubishi Research Institute DCS (三菱総研DCS), often simply called DCS, for Diamond Computer Service, its former name, is the system integrator of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), jointly owned by Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. (MRI) and MUFG. It was established in 1970 from the IT service department of Mitsubishi Bank, listed in the First Floor of Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2001, but was delisted in 2004. It now employs about 1800 people.
The Bank of Tokyo, Ltd. was a Japanese foreign exchange bank that operated from 1946 to 1996. In January 1996, it merged with Mitsubishi Bank to form The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi. Its headquarters was in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo, adjacent to the Bank of Japan.
Mitsubishi (三菱) is the common short name/spoken name for the Mitsubishi Group, which is a self-governing conglomerate of Japanese multinational companies in various industries, and originated from the Mitsubishi zaibatsu.
