Honorific Prefix: | Viscount |
Keizō Shibusawa | |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Office: | Minister of Finance of Japan |
Term Start: | 9 October 1945 |
Term End: | 22 May 1946 |
Primeminister: | Kijūrō Shidehara |
Predecessor: | Juichi Tsushima |
Successor: | Tanzan Ishibashi |
Office2: | 16th Governor of the Bank of Japan |
Term Start2: | 18 March 1944 |
Term End2: | 9 October 1945 |
Primeminister2: | Hideki Tojo Kuniaki Koiso Kantaro Suzuki Naruhiko Higashikuni |
Predecessor2: | Toyotarō Yūki |
Successor2: | Eikichi Araki |
Birth Date: | 25 August 1896 |
Birth Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
Alma Mater: | Tokyo Imperial University |
Viscount was a Japanese businessman, central banker, philanthropist and folklorist. He was the 16th Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ).
Shibusawa was born in Tokyo.[1] He was the grandson of Shibusawa Eiichi.[2]
Shibusawa was Governor of the Bank of Japan from March 18, 1944 – October 9, 1945.[3] He left the bank to serve as Finance Minister in the brief post-war government of Kijūrō Shidehara in 1945-1946.[4]
The dissolution of the Japanese zaibatsu was implemented during the period in which he was head of the Ministry of Finance.[2]
Shibusawa was involved in the creation of the core collection of the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka.[5]