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clique

zaibatsu

alma mater clique

faction-based personnel appointment

intra-party faction

factional dynamics

factional dispute

faction-based politics

party faction

belonging to no (political) faction

Mitsui Zaibatsu

military clique

Yasuda Zaibatsu

factionalism

factional infighting (conflict)

clique

Beiyang Army

strong feelings of loyalty to one's old school

dissolution of the zaibatsu (during the US occupation of Japan)

clan

lineage

Sumitomo Zaibatsu

Mitsubishi Zaibatsu

new zaibatsu (formed after the Meiji period)

balance of power among factions (within a political party)

government by relatives of ruler's wife

Zhejiang financial clique

clanship

Satsuma clan

clan