Mizuho predecessors, the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (“ DKB ”), the Fuji Bank (“ Fuji ”) and the Industrial Bank of Japan (“ IBJ ”), had great control over many Japanese companies through keiretsu system.

DKB surpassed longtime leader the Fuji Bank as the Japanese largest bank measured by assets and deposit market share.

Although DKB had higher assets than any other Japanese banks, its capability was inferior to that of high-ranking banks such as Fuji, Sumitomo, Sanwa or Mitsubishi.

However, the formation of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank ( DKB ) in 1971 dethroned Fuji from its top status in the Japanese banking industry.

However, Fuji and DKB were able to negotiate a three-party transaction in which Fuji and DKB merged their respective trust banks, and the merged company acquired the corporate and pension divisions of Yasuda Trust.

On September 29, 2000, all shares of Fuji, DKB and the Industrial Bank of Japan were acquired by a newly formed Mizuho Holdings.

On April 1, 2002, Fuji acquired the corporate banking operations of DKB and absorbed all operations of IBJ, renaming itself Mizuho Corporate Bank.

DKB simultaneously acquired the individual banking operations of Fuji and renamed itself Mizuho Bank.

It was formed by the merging of DKB Information Systems, Fuji Research Institute Corporation, and IBJ Systems Ltd. ( all owned by Mizuho Financial Group ) on October 1, 2004.

In 1971 Dai-ichi Bank and Nippon Kangyo Bank merged to form the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Limited (“ DKB ”).

DKB executives worried about recurrence of the problem in Teikoku Bank period that former two banks ' employees were on bad terms each other.

DKB Head Office near the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, now known as Mizuho Bank Head Office Building | Mizuho Bank Head Office

Taking over Nippon Kangyo and Noko's operation, DKB was the sole trustee of Takarakuji lottery and was the only bank to have branches in every prefecture in Japan.

It also functions as one of the main company of the keiretsu Mizuho Group, formed from the former DKB Group and the former Fuyo Group.

The company is the parent of the Hitachi Group ( Hitachi Gurūpu ) as part of the larger DKB Group companies.

The three banks led the DKB Group, Fuyo Group and the IBJ Group respectively.

DKB formed DKB Group ( also known as Dai-Ichi Kangyo Group ), the largest Japanese keiretsu in terms of the number of associated companies, and became the central bank of DKB Group.

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Irrational personnel affairs prevented DKB from growing profitable revenue.

During the Japanese asset price bubble of the late 1980s Japanese banks, including DKB, granted increasingly risky loans.

What was worse, DKB financed not only risky companies but also Yakuza, crime organizations, in order to invest in capital resources much more easily than its competitors.

A raid by Tokyo prosecutors in 1997 impeaching of the loans to sōkaiya laid DKB open to public criticism.

, former president and the then chairman of DKB, who faced severe pressure over a series of alleged misdeeds, committed suicide by hanging himself at his home.

DKB offers a Visa Classic deferred debit card without any fees, except foreign exchange fees-being one of the more competitive payment card alternatives.

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Ward's music combined with the Bates poem was first published in 1910 and titled America the Beautiful.

Ward's music combined with Bates ' poem were first published together in 1910 and titled, America the Beautiful.