Information:  - Japan ("Nippon" or "Nihon" ; formally "" or "Nihon-koku", means "State of Japan") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, It is lying off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland (east of China, Korea, Russia) and stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and near Taiwan in the southwest.   - A is a set of companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings. It is a type of informal business group. The "keiretsu" maintained dominance over the Japanese economy for the second half of the 20th century.  - In financial accounting, an asset is an economic resource. Anything tangible or intangible that can be owned or controlled to produce value and that is held to have positive economic value is considered an asset. Simply stated, assets represent value of ownership that can be converted into cash (although cash itself is also considered an asset).  - A business (also known as an enterprise, a company or a firm) is an organizational entity involved in the provision of goods and services to consumers. Businesses as a form of economic activity are prevalent in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and provide goods and services to customers in exchange for other goods, services, or money. Businesses may also be social non-profit enterprises or state-owned public enterprises charged by governments with specific social and economic objectives. A business owned by multiple individuals may form as an incorporated company or jointly organise as a partnership. Countries have different laws that may ascribe different rights to the various business entities.  - MUFG holds assets of around US$2.9 trillion as of 2016, making it world's third largest bank by total assets and is one of the main companies of the Mitsubishi Group. It is Japan's largest financial group and the world's second largest bank holding company holding around US$1.8 trillion (JPY 148 trillion) in deposits as of March 2011. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is the second largest public company in Japan when measured by market capitalization.  - A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates credit. Lending activities can be performed either directly or indirectly through capital markets. Due to their importance in the financial stability of a country, banks are highly regulated in most countries. Most nations have institutionalized a system known as fractional reserve banking under which banks hold liquid assets equal to only a portion of their current liabilities. In addition to other regulations intended to ensure liquidity, banks are generally subject to minimum capital requirements based on an international set of capital standards, known as the Basel Accords.  - The is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies in a variety of industries. Its total revenue is about 10 percent of Japan's GDP.  - Kirin Company , Limited (  Kirin Kabushiki - gaisha ) is an integrated beverages company . It is a subsidiary of Kirin Holdings Company , Limited . Its major operating units include Kirin Brewery Company , Limited , Mercian Corporation and Kirin Beverages Company , Limited . Kirin is a member of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group ( MUFJ ) keiretsu .  - A bank holding company is a company that controls one or more banks, but does not necessarily engage in banking itself.    Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'instance of' with the subject 'kirin company'.  Choices: - bank  - bank holding company  - business group  - capital  - coast  - company  - country  - enterprise  - financial institution  - group  - holding company  - institution  - island  - island nation  - liquid  - market  - may  - nation  - ocean  - public  - resource  - rights  - set  - state  - system  - variety
Answer:
holding company