Zaibatsu

The zaibatsu in the Genji Empire are industrial and financial conglomerates that control significant fraction of the national economy. Conventionally, a zaibatsu is a family controlled business, structured with a holding company for administration, a banking subsidiary, and numerous industry-specific subsidiaries.

Foundings
The zaibatsu are important in the private sector of the Genji Empire. The oldest of them trace themselves back to the end of the Sengoku Wars. Houses loyal to Tokugawa gained significant grounds in business as they became his clients. A new wave of zaibatsu were formed in the Genji Restoration, this time Genji loyalists consolidating their gains into industries that helped modernise the feudal sub-sector into the Empire within the Imperium.

Zaiyu
The Zaiyu is the oldest major zaibatsu active to this day, formed at the aftermath of the Segoku Wars to consolidate House Zaiyu's financial assets. Zaiyu started as a mining firm, but after the first Genji Restoration expanded in other businesses the larger connection to the rest of the Imperium, expanding early towards forestry, banking, and logistics.

Iwasaki
Main article: Iwasaki Zaibatsu

The Iwasaki zaibatsu was founded by the Iwasaki family with shipping as the core business. It formed ties with the Adeptus Mechanicus to procure ships, bought shipbuilding satellites for their construction, started mining operations to provide the materials and so forth to link the whole supply chain. Their business expanded into the production of starfighters and other equipment.