Translation of "clique" into Japanese

We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough

受け入れられるという感覚を 感じるようになれば 派閥をつくります

Since then , he had been playing an important role in the government as a grand person of Satsuma clique .

以後 は 政府 内 で 薩摩 閥 の 重鎮 と し て 君臨 し た 。