Hisato Ichimada Explained

Hisato Ichimada
Native Name Lang:ja
Office:Minister of Finance
Primeminister:Nobusuke Kishi
Term Start:10 July 1957
Term End:12 June 1958
Predecessor:Hayato Ikeda
Successor:Eisaku Satō
Primeminister1:Ichirō Hatoyama
Term Start1:10 December 1954
Term End1:23 December 1956
Predecessor1:Sankurō Ogasawara
Successor1:Hayato Ikeda
Office2:Governor of the Bank of Japan
Term Start2:1 June 1946
Term End2:10 December 1954
Primeminister2:Shigeru Yoshida
Tetsu Katayama
Hitoshi Ashida
Predecessor2:Eikichi Araki
Successor2:Eikichi Araki
Birth Date:12 August 1893
Birth Place:Notsuharu, Ōita, Japan
Alma Mater:Tokyo Imperial University

was a Japanese banker and politician who served as Minister of Finance from 1954 to 1956 and 1957 to 1958, and as Governor of the Bank of Japan from 1946 to 1954.

Ichimada was an important figure in the post-war revival of the Japanese economy.

Biography

Ichimada was born in Notsuharu, Ōita on August 12, 1893. He attended Tokyo Imperial University, and joined the Bank of Japan after graduating in 1918. From 1923 to 1926 Ichimada was posted in Germany to study the monetary policy of the Reichsbank. He came to greatly admire Reichsbank president Hjalmar Schacht.[1] [2]

Rising within the Bank of Japan, Ichimada became director general of the Bank Examination Department in 1942 and a board member in 1944. Following the Japanese surrender, the Bank of Japan Governor Eikichi Araki was purged by the occupation in 1946. Ichimada was appointed as his successor.[3]

As Governor, Ichimada used the lessons from his time in Weimar Germany to curb inflation and stabilise the Yen. He is also believed to have initiated the use of "window guidance" to allocate credit. His authority led to him being nicknamed "the Pope." Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida choose him as one of the Japanese plenipotentiaries to sign the Treaty of San Francisco.

Ichimada also headed the Japanese part of the fundraising operation to found the International Christian University, although he himself was Buddhist.[4] He was chairman of the Japan-India Association from 1952 to 1955.

When Ichiro Hatoyama became prime minister in 1954, Ichimada became Minister of Finance as a non-parliamentary minister. While in this position he was elected in the 1955 House of Representatives election for Japan Democratic Party led by Hatoyama. He participated in the formation of the Liberal Democratic Party the same year. Ichimada left a Minister of Finance with the end of the Hatoyama cabinet in 1956, but was reappointed under Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi in 1957. He left due to the reshuffle in 1958.

Ichimada continued to serve as a Diet member until retiring in 1969. He died of heart failure on January 22, 1984, at the age 90.

He was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a world constitution.[5] [6] As a result, for the first time in human history, a World Constituent Assembly convened to draft and adopt the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.[7]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 第18代総裁:一萬田尚登 . 2023-05-31 . Bank of Japan . ja .
  2. Book: Werner, Richard . 25 April 2003 . Princes of the Yen: Japan's Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy . Routledge . 57-58 . 978-0765610492.
  3. Web site: 一万田 尚登 . 2023-05-31 . Kotobank . ja .
  4. Web site: Our History | JAPAN ICU FOUNDATION . 2014-05-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130923182828/http://jicuf.org/about-us/our-history/ . 2013-09-23 .
  5. Web site: Letters from Thane Read asking Helen Keller to sign the World Constitution for world peace. 1961 . 2023-07-01 . Helen Keller Archive . American Foundation for the Blind.
  6. Web site: Letter from World Constitution Coordinating Committee to Helen, enclosing current materials . 2023-07-03 . Helen Keller Archive . American Foundation for the Blind.
  7. Web site: Preparing earth constitution Global Strategies & Solutions The Encyclopedia of World Problems . dead . 2023-07-15 . The Encyclopedia of World Problems Union of International Associations (UIA) . 2023-07-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230719215501/http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en/strategy/193465 .