Otohiko Ichiki
Otohiko Ichiki | |
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| 10th Governor of the Bank of Japan | |
| In office September 5, 1923 – May 10, 1927 | |
| Preceded by | Junnosuke Inoue |
| Succeeded by | Junnosuke Inoue |
| Minister of Finance of Japan | |
| In office June 12, 1922 – September 2, 1923 | |
| Prime Minister | Katō Tomosaburō |
| Preceded by | Korekiyo Takahashi |
| Succeeded by | Junnosuke Inoue |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 7, 1872 Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan |
| Died | February 19, 1954 (aged 81) |
| Alma mater | Tokyo Imperial University |
Otohiko Ichiki (市来 乙彦, Ichiki Otohiko, May 7, 1872 – February 19, 1954) was a Japanese bureaucrat, politician, and central banker. He served as the Minister of Finance, the 10th Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), and the mayor of Tokyo City,
Early life and Education
[edit]Ichiki was born in Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture.[1] He finished the local school, Middle School Zoshikan.[2] He entered the Higher Middle School Zoshikan of Kagoshima too,[2] but he dropped out for financial reason.[3] He went to Tokyo in 1889 and stayed in Inajiro Tajiri's house as a live-in student (Mr.Tajiri was an economist and financial bureaucracy).[1] Ichiki finished the First Higher Middle School where was Tokyo in 1893.[4] He graduated College of Law, Imperial University and entered Japanese Ministry of Finance in 1896.[5]
Career
[edit]In 1922-1923, Ichiki was briefly Finance Minister in the cabinet of Katō Tomosaburō.[6] As head of the Ministry of Finance, he was cautious in response to unsettled financial situation.[7] Ichiki was Governor of the Bank of Japan from September 5, 1923 through May 10, 1927.[8]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b 市来政尚 (1930). 三州名士録大鑑 上巻 (in Japanese). Japan: 三州名士録刊行会. pp. 157–164.
- ^ a b 原田道寛, ed. (1915). 大正名家録 (in Japanese). Japan: 二六社編纂局. p. 49.
- ^ 南日本新聞社, ed. (1969). 郷土人系 上 (in Japanese). Japan: 春苑堂書店. p. 94.
- ^ 第一高等学校一覧 自明治三十四年 至明治三十五年 (in Japanese). Japan: 第一高等学校. 1902. p. 160.
- ^ 市来 乙彦. 改訂 政治家人名事典 明治～昭和 (in Japanese). Japan: 日外アソシエーツ. 2003.
- ^ Metzler, Mark. (2006). Lever of Empire: the International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan, p. 141., p. 141, at Google Books
- ^ James, Harold et al. (2002). The Role of Banks in the Interwar Economy, p. 254., p. 254, at Google Books
- ^ BOJ, List of Governors.
References
[edit]- 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
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