{"product_id":"japanese-banking-a-history-1859-1959-hardback-9780521496766","title":"Japanese Banking; A History, 1859–1959 (Hardback) 9780521496766","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eJapanese Banking\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA History, 1859–1959\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book, first published in 1995, provides a full account in English of the Japanese banking industry from 1859–1959.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNorio Tamaki (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521496766, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 September 1995\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages, 1 map  10 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 2.4 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHow did the Japanese achieve their unrivalled position in world banking? This book, first published in 1995, provides a full account in English of the banking industry in Japan for the century following the opening of the country to the outside world in 1859. Professor Tamaki begins by considering the period of experimentation during the Meiji Restoration which resulted in the adoption of the Gold Standard in 1891. He then offers a detailed examination of the highly profitable years up to the end of the First World War and of the subsequent crisis which was hastened by the earthquake that devastated Tokyo and Yokohama in 1923 and sealed by the financial collapse of 1927. New light is thrown on the extraordinary role played by the banking industry during the period of military expansionism which culminated with defeat in the Second World War. The book ends with an assessment of the post-war financial system which developed out of the Macarthur directives and the subsequent American 'democratisation' programme.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Genealogy of leading Japanese banks 1859–1959\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Part I. A Bankrupt Shogunate 1859–68: 1. Japanese merchant bankers: Ryogae\u003cbr\u003e 2. A bankrupt regime\u003cbr\u003e 3. Ryogae, struggling for survival?\u003cbr\u003e 4. The arrival of Western banking\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Meiji Restoration: Monetary Confusion and Banking Experiments, 1868–81: 5.  The first banking experiment\u003cbr\u003e 6. The national bank system: American influence\u003cbr\u003e 7. The origins of ordinary banking: another bank mania\u003cbr\u003e 8. Search for stability: the last bank controversy\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Yokohama Specie Bank or Shokin\u003cbr\u003e 11. Consolidation and expansion\u003cbr\u003e 12. The adoption of gold standard\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Japanese on the London Money Market, 1897–1911: 13. The 'Siamese twins': Nichigin and Shokin\u003cbr\u003e 14. Special banking\u003cbr\u003e 15. Banking at the end of the Meiji era\u003cbr\u003e 16. Banking and the securities market\u003cbr\u003e Part V. War: The Japanese Boom Years, 1911–19: 17. Bank of Japan money supply\u003cbr\u003e 18. The expansion of special banking\u003cbr\u003e 19. Ordinary and savings banks: the search for strength\u003cbr\u003e 20. Other financial sectors in the boom years\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Crisis and the Road to War, 1919–37: 21. Post war collapse, 1919–23\u003cbr\u003e 22. 1923 catastrophic earthquake, 1927 financial disaster, and the new Bank Act\u003cbr\u003e 23. Financing heavy industries\u003cbr\u003e 24. The challenge of militarism and a change of roles for Nichigin and Shokin\u003cbr\u003e Part VII. Complete Commitment, Struggles, and Defeat, 1937–45: 25. War budgets and the mobilisation of national resources\u003cbr\u003e 26. Extraordinary banking business during the national emergency\u003cbr\u003e 27. Crisis, 1945\u003cbr\u003e Part VIII. American 'Democratization' and the Search for Growth, 1945–59: 28. MacArthur's directives\u003cbr\u003e 29. Remaking the banking system: the Japanese vs. the Americans\u003cbr\u003e 30. Rise of governmental banking and the search for stability: the Japanese initiatives\u003cbr\u003e 31. The post-war system\u003cbr\u003e 32. An extraordinary century, 1859–1959\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: International economics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on International economics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22International%20economics%20%5BKCL%5D%22\"\u003eKCL\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006069526808,"sku":"9780521496766","price":101.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521496766i_30773989-97bc-488f-a08d-8665b093a122.jpg?v=1691383113","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/japanese-banking-a-history-1859-1959-hardback-9780521496766","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}