Nippon: Zaibatsu is a new edition of Nippon, a fast-paced economic game based on area control. You control a "zaibatsu" – a massive conglomerate of interconnected companies driving the Japanese economy during the Industrial Revolution.

Invest in new industries, build factories and railways, and produce goods to flood local markets and fulfill contracts. Grow your influence and power to become the ruler of a modernized nation.

Choose your own playstyle and winning strategy. Decide what you score points for, control the game's pace with income rounds, and compete for the best factories, markets, and bonuses.

All core mechanics of the original Nippon remain, but the components, graphics, and design have been upgraded, and many elements have been reworked to match modern trends!

Nippon: Zaibatsu introduces new types of resources, completely redesigned ships with new Iwakura mission rules, more variable factories, and consolidation rounds that offer new rewards. The game now also includes a solo mode driven by an automa.

The game is in English.

The game contains:

• 1 main game board
• 30 double-sided factory tiles
• 9 demand tiles
• 16 starting tokens
• 24 printed wooden department tokens
• 48 worker meeples
• 1 custom-printed cloth bag with a flat bottom
• 6 expert tokens
• 2 round markers
• 32 deluxe goods cubes
• 32 deluxe coal cubes
• 24 deluxe silk cubes
• 24 deluxe iron cubes
• 40 money tokens
• 4 zaibatsu boards
• 32 contract tokens
• 12 track markers
• 8 scoring discs
• 24 ships
• 24 trains
• 40 printed wooden influence tokens
• 36 printed wooden favor tokens
• 1 rulebook, 4 player aids
• 1 automa board
• 9 action tokens
• 9 objective tokens
• 1 modular organizer