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Japan's Robert Behrens. Money. Together. The founder of the powerful Japanese family of Mitsui said that.

The Mitsui's have been operating on that basis ever since. Yes, money. Work together. The Mitsui's generation after generation have played all ends against the middle. Get money. Work together. Today, the house of Mitsui and three other wealthy family combines control one-third of Japan's trade and industry.

This is a steel mill. Get money, work together. This is a steamship. Get money, work together. This is a coal mine. Get money, work together. Japan's four families of the money aristocracy monopolize most of these enterprises.

They also control Japan's shipbuilding, munitions, machinery, her warehouses, trading companies, refineries, breweries, her engineering firms, insurance companies, and of course, her banks. Four families and their names are world-known. Let'sui. Mitsubishi. Sumitomo. Yasuda. These and about ten other interests, with their corporations, their holding companies, their trusts and their cartels, run the business of Japan.

And the most powerful of these wealthy families is the House of Mitsui, which controls nearly fifteen percent of all the nation's business. The House of Mitsui is no Johnny come lately. It dates back three hundred years.