Japanese banking a history, 1859-1959

This book, first published in 1995, provides a full account in English of the banking industry in Japan for a century following the opening of the country to the outside world in 1859. The book ends with an assessment of the post-war financial system which developed out of the Macarthur directives a...

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Main Author: Tamaki, Norio 1940- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1995
Series:Studies in monetary and financial history
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Table of Contents:
  • pt.1. A bankrupt Shogunate, 1859-1868
  • pt.2. The Meiji Restoration: monetary confusion and banking experiments, 1868-1881
  • pt.3. Matsukata, the wizard of Japanese banking, 1881-1897; the Yokohama Specie Bank (1880) and the Bank of Japan (1882)
  • pt.4. The Japanese on the London money market, 1897-1911
  • pt.5. War, the Japanese boom years, 1911-1919
  • pt.6. Crisis and the road to war, 1919-1937
  • pt.7. Complete commitment, struggle and defeat, 1937-1945
  • pt.8. American 'democratisation' and the search for growth, 1945-1959
  • An extraordinary century, 1859-1959