Japanese Banking: A History, 1859â€“1959

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ISBN: 9780521022330 | 0521022339
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 11/10/2005

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In Japan, as in other parts of the world, banking plays an essential role in economic development. Studying key industries such as banking provides an important tool for genuinely understanding a country. This book gives that understanding of Japan for the first time in English. It thoroughly documents Japanese banking during a crucial one-hundred years--from the opening of her borders to the world in 1859 through two world wars--from which the Japanese economy finally emerged as one of the most powerful global forces.

Preface
Genealogy of leading Japanese banks 1859-1959
Abbreviations
Part I. A Bankrupt Shogunate 1859-1868: 1. Japanese merchant bankers: Ryogae
2. A bankrupt regime
3. Ryogae, struggling for survival?
4. The arrival of Western banking
Part II. The Meiji Restoration: Monetary Confusion and Banking Experiments, 1868-1881: 5. The first banking experiment
6. The national bank system: American influence
7. The origins of ordinary banking: another bank mania
8. Search for stability: the last bank controversy
Part III. Matsukata, the Wizard of Japanese Banking 1881-1897, the Yokohama Specie Bank (1880), and the Bank of Japan (1882): 9. The Bank of Japan, or Nichigin
10. The Yokohama Specie Bank or Shokin
11. Consolidation and expansion
12. The adoption of gold standard
Part IV. The Japanese on the London Money Market, 1897-1911: 13. The 'Siamese twins': Nichigin and Shokin
14. Special banking
15. Banking at the end of the Meiji era
16. Banking and the securities market
Part V. War: The Japanese Boom Years, 1911-1919: 17. Bank of Japan money supply
18. The expansion of special banking
19. Ordinary and savings banks: the search for strength
20. Other financial sectors in the boom years
Part VI. Crisis and the Road to War, 1919-1937: 21. Post war collapse, 1919-1923
22. 1923 catastrophic earthquake, 1927 financial disaster, and the new Bank Act
23. Financing heavy industries
24. The challenge of militarism and a change of roles for Nichigin and Shokin
Part VII. Complete Commitment, Struggles, and Defeat, 1937-1945: 25. War budgets and the mobilisation of national resources
26. Extraordinary banking business during the national emergency
27. Crisis, 1945
Part VIII. American 'Democratization' and the Search for Growth, 1945-1959: 28. MacArthur's directives
29. Remaking the banking system: the Japanese vs. the Americans
30. Rise of governmental banking and the search for stability: the Japanese initiatives
31. The post-war system
32. An extraordinary century, 1859-1959
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

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Japanese Banking: A History, 1859â€“1959

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