How to say "capitalist" in Japanese

• 資本家しほんかCommon
  nounThe common word for 'capitalist': a person who owns capital and employs it in business, or more broadly a financier. This is the word you want in most contexts, from economics discussion to everyday talk about business owners.
  外国がいこく資本家しほんかは現地げんちの政情せいじょう不安ふあんが理由りゆうで手てを引ひきました。↗

  Foreign investors backed off because of regional political unrest.
• キャピタリスト
  nounA loanword covering the same sense of 'capitalist'. Being less common than 資本家, it is seldom the word you need; reach for it only in stylistic contexts where the katakana term is deliberately preferred.
• 資本主義者しほんしゅぎしゃ
  nounRefers to 'capitalist' in the sense of a supporter or adherent of capitalism as an ideology or economic system, rather than simply a person of means. Use it when the belief in capitalism itself is the point.
• 本方もとかた
  nounGlossed as 'capitalist; financier; investor' but less common, and as a way to say 'capitalist' it is marginal. Learners should treat it as a specialist word and prefer 資本家 for the financier/investor senses.

Use 資本家 for the usual senses of 'capitalist' (a person who owns capital or a financier); 資本主義者 is for ideological/adherent senses, 「キャピタリスト」 a rarer loanword, and 本方 a marginal match.

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• 資本家しほんかcapitalist
• キャピタリストcapitalist
• 資本主義者しほんしゅぎしゃcapitalist
• 本方もとかたcapitalist