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Iwasaki Yatar was a Japanese financier and shipping industrialist, and the founder of Mitsubishi.

Iwasaki was born in a provincial farming family in Aki, Tosa province , the greatgrandson of a man who had sold his familys samurai status in obligation of debts. Iwasaki began his career as an employee of the Tosa clan. The clan had business interests in many parts of Japan.

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