After the Meiji Restoration, Mitsui was among the enterprises that were able to expand to become zaibatsu not simply because they were already big and rich at the start of modern industrial development.
Nach der Meiji-Restauration gehörte Mitsui zu den Unternehmen, die es schwer hatten, eine Zaibatsu zu bilden, weil sie schon am Anfang der modernen industriellen Entwicklung groß und reich waren.