The keiretsu are

A. large companies that maintain relationships in a more informal manner than the zaibatsu.
B. systems of totally independent corporate entities.
C. newly reconstituted, formalized cartel arrangements.
D. Meiji-oriented systems of corporate dependencies.
E. monopoly arrangements.


Answer: A

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