閥 - clique, lineage, pedigree

clique; faction

clique; clan; faction

zaibatsu; financial conglomerate; industrial group

Satsuma clan

factionalism

Mitsui Zaibatsu

strong feelings of loyalty to one's old school; the old school tie

new zaibatsu (formed after the Meiji period)

Zhejiang financial clique; Sekko Zaibatsu; clique from Zhejiang and Jiangsu, influential in Shanghai finance from late 1920s through 1930s

Sumitomo Zaibatsu

Mitsubishi Zaibatsu

Yasuda Zaibatsu