Some people refer to a comprehensive trading company as a modernized East India Company.

Like the East India Companies that actually managed colonies, Japan's mega trading companies have openly created economic development zones (effectively colonies) in countries like the Philippines.

They engage in intermediary trading, selling cheaply produced goods from the locals to developed countries, or peddling advanced technological products embedded with high-end techniques from developed countries at inflated prices in other nations.

In short, they are the embodiment of greed, doing anything that can make money.

“I’ve never heard of that term. How does this comprehensive trading company operate?”