Viscount Yatarō Mishima (三島 彌太郎, Mishima Yatarō, May 4, 1867 – March 7, 1919) was a Japanese businessman, central banker and the 8th Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ). Viscount Mishima was a member of Japan's House of Peers.
Early life
Mishima was born in Kagoshima Prefecture.
In 1893, Mishima briefly married a daughter of Ōyama Iwao, whom he was forced to divorce when she caught tuberculosis. Their relationship was the basis for Kenjirō Tokutomi's popular 1899 novel The Cuckoo.
In 1894–1900 he studied at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York where he earned a M.A. degree.
Career
During 1911–1913, Mishima was head of the Yokohama Specie Bank.
Mishima was Governor of the Bank of Japan from February 28, 1913 to March 7, 1919. As head of the bank, Mishima encouraged policies of monetary restraint.
His sudden death in 1919 was unexpected.
See also
Notes
- ^ Masaoka, Naoichi. (1914). Japan to America, p. 127.
- Bank of Japan (BOJ), 8th Governor
- Nimura, Janice P. (2015). Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back (First ed.). New York. pp. 241–243. ISBN 978-0-393-07799-5. OCLC 891611002.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Smitka, Michael. (1998). The Interwar Economy of Japan: Colonialism, Depression, and Recovery, 1910-1940, p. 30., p. 30, at Google Books
- BOJ, List of Governors.
- Metzler, Mark. (2006). Lever of Empire: the International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan, pp. 87-88., p. 87, at Google Books
- Metzler, p. 119., p. 119, at Google Books
References
- Metzler, Mark. (2006). Lever of Empire: the International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520244207; OCLC 469841628
- Masaoka, Naoichi. (1914). Japan to America: A Symposium of Papers by Political Leaders and Representative Citizens of Japan on Conditions in Japan and on the Relations Between Japan and the United States. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons (Japan Society). OCLC 256220
- Smitka, Michael. (1998). The Interwar Economy of Japan: Colonialism, Depression, and Recovery, 1910-1940. New York: Garland. ISBN 9780815327066; OCLC 38270649
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| Preceded byKorekiyo Takahashi | Governor of the Bank of Japan 1913–1919 |
Succeeded byJunnosuke Inoue (1st term) |
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