Japanese Banking: A History, 1859-1959

ISBN-13: 9780521496766 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 312 str.

Norio Tamaki; Michael D. Bordo; Forrest Capie

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"This book offers a useful overview of Japan's banking institutions as they evolved.... Drawn largely from Japanese sources, it provides material not readily accessible in other English-language literature. The author also does a good job of setting the development of Japanese into the larger context of Japan's modern history. A careful reader will find much in it about which to think." Elizabeth P. Tsunoda, The Historian

Spis treści

Preface; Genealogy of leading Japanese banks 1859–1959; Abbreviations; Part I. A Bankrupt Shogunate 1859–68: 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, 1868–81: 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 1881–97, 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, 1911–19: 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, 1919–37: 21. Post war collapse, 1919–23; 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, 1937–45: 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, 1945–59: 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.