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		jandrese on May 23, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Bill Gates Line I thought it was because when Japanese companies go for financing the bank insists that they take their name. So you have tons of basically unrelated companies with the same name.

mfoy_ on May 23, 2018 [–]

Source?

jandrese on May 23, 2018 | [–]

I heard that third hand but it does seem to track reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu

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