The Intrigue to Control the World

Have you ever thought about a question—are we really live in the world we believe? Is life really going as simple as it looks like? Once you finish reading my discovery, you may not be able to think that way anymore. Here is the thing: One day I was thinking about buying a pen. I always bought Mitsubishi’s pen, for it works the smoothest in writing. However, as I looked in my pencil case, I found out all of my pens are made by Mitsubishi, even my ruler is too. I sprouted a thought that the three-diamond mark has also appeared on the front of the cars. Then the company must be very big to produce these thoroughly different types of items. Therefore, out of curiosity, I decided to look up for information about Mitsubishi. I wanted to know if there are still other kinds of companies in it. To my astonishment, the content of aspect in the companies was way beyond my imagination—much, much more.

When we hear the name ”Mitsubishi,” normally the first thing comes to the mind is its automobile company. The brand is the most common item among various Mitsubishi Corporations. It is pretty regular to see the diamonds on the streets. Since 1970, it has become one of the biggest automobile manufactures in the world. In addition, Mitsubishi Motors had reached 1.3 million cars of total production in 2007—a huge success in sales in Taiwan, Southern East Asia, and is looking for the market in China. With the great amount of output of the automobile, Mitsubishi can easily control the car price in the public market. Whether the cost goes high or low, it all depends on the company’s will. Fortunately, they did not plan to sell the cars solely to the rich. They provide cheap and basic version of cars to the lower class people letting everybody has the chance to own their car. Of course, on the other hand, there are exquisite and luxurious vehicles which may contain GPS, TV, and more powerful engine for the upper class people.

Nevertheless, things introduced above are just the one people can imagine. It is just a tinge of the tremendous Mitsubishi Group. The true phenomenal success of business among all the companies is the Mitsubishi Corporation (MC), which is now Japan’s largest general trading company, with over 200 bases of operations in approximately 80 countries worldwide. We can see its extent from its worker number that together with its over 500 group companies, Mitsubishi employs a multinational workforce of nearly 54,000 people. Under the extraordinary high market share, MC can never be looked down of its power in the market.

Beyond the high market share, the diversity is the really startling part of Mitsubishi. They want to involve in every part of our life! For instance, Mitsubishi Bank, the core company of Mitsubishi Group, is actually Asia’s largest financial services company measured by assets. They also involved themselves in insurance business, real estates, even the famous tourist company—Golden Sado., Ltd. as well. Nikon, a famous brand of camera, is also one of its companies.

Still, despite of its commercial trades among the business world, Mitsubishi has great influence on the world’s chemical industry. Mitsubishi Chemicals, now the largest Japanese chemical company, has developed miscellaneous items by synthetic resin, which is the source of all kinds of chemical product from umbrellas, plastic bags, to papers, clothes, etc. One of those is Asahi Glass Co., one of the largest flat glass companies in the world, significantly influencing glass industry in Europe to North America in general. The Mitsubishi Chemicals has the power to affect the world’s manure, glue, fiber, medical agricultural business, and farm business with its machines. We can almost say every daily utensil we would use has a connection to Mitsubishi Chemicals in some way.

If you were already shocked being surrounded by the companies mentioning above, then you must be frightened to hear the following part. Mitsubishi has actually involved in food business too. In fact, the famous beer company Kirin is one of the members of the group. Furthermore, Mitsubishi has also invested in crops, dried laver, vinegar, and many other food ingredients, which means they have control the source of food’s raw materials. Thus, it is very likely that every food you eat has something to do with Mitsubishi. Not merely the food has connection to the corporation; the clothes we wear are related to the company too. Mitsubishi owns Rayon companies which produce most of our clothes—gauzes, jeans, jumpers… Every costume you wear is from Mitsubishi. How scaring is it!

The name Mitsubishi may not be heard very often every day, but it actually controls nearly every part of our daily life, from what we eat, what we wear, what we drive, to what we use per day. Once they decide to raise the price of the products, the whole world will be affected. When I found out the possibility of the inflation or corruption of the business around the world, I wondered why no one has noticed and reported it. According to my memory, there was a time when similar situation had happened.

In late 19th and early 20th centuries, “Trust” had gained economic power in the U.S. The term “Trust” means the corporate leaders of a board forced the shareholders of all the companies in one industry to transmit their shares to a board of trustees, in exchange for dividend-paying certificates. This board would then be in command of all the companies in Trust and minimize the competition in the process, causing the monopolization in general—including oil, steel, tobacco, and marine companies. Nonetheless, the U.S. president latter established the “Antitrust Laws,” which was called “Competition Laws” in other countries, ending the era of monopolization.

Since we have a precedent in the history, then how come there is no one discovering the fact and accusing them? Here is the problem, or the corporation’s scheme. The Mitsubishi Group cleverly separates its corporations to small companies. They even use different names to develop its own business. Therefore, people would hardly perceive the siege of the company. Still, whether they know or not, the truth is—those heads of all these businesses are all related or controlled by the Mitsubishi Group.

As you know the intrigue of the Mitsubishi, maybe it is time for you to rethink about what you use every day and concern for the monopolization of international group. You can start now, having your own thinking about the international group. After all, nobody would like to be ruled without knowingly or unwillingly.