While zaibatsus were dissolved during the Allied occupation of Japan following World War II (around the time the word entered English), many of the individual companies that comprised them continued to be managed as they had been, and the term has survived....
Like the chaebol, zaibatsu were family controlled conglomerates that dominated Japan’s economy until they were disbanded by the U.S. after World War II. Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019 Word History Etymology Japanese zai money, wealth + batsu clique, clan First Known Use 1947, in the mean...