These individuals accomplished more, and their achievements were more spectacular, than those of the Rothschilds in England the Krupps of Germany, or even of Bill Gates and Microsoft. Iwasaki founded what is now arguably the largest enterprise in the world, the Mitsubishi Group of Companies, while Shibusawa personally established 600 industrial companies in his lifetime. At the beginning of the century, these two collectively represented two-thirds of Japan ‘ s manufacturing and transportation industries.