Yatarō Mishima Explained

Viscount 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.^[1]

Early life

Mishima was born in Kagoshima Prefecture.^[2]

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.^[3]

In 1894–1900 he studied at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York where he earned a M.A. degree.^[1]

Career

During 1911–1913, Mishima was head of the Yokohama Specie Bank.^[4]

Mishima was Governor of the Bank of Japan from February 28, 1913 to March 7, 1919.^[5] As head of the bank, Mishima encouraged policies of monetary restraint.^[6]

His sudden death in 1919 was unexpected.^[7]

See also

• Michiharu Mishima

References

• Metzler, Mark. (2006). Lever of Empire: the International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press. ;
• 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).
• Smitka, Michael. (1998). The Interwar Economy of Japan: Colonialism, Depression, and Recovery, 1910-1940. New York: Garland. ;

Notes and References

1. Masaoka, Naoichi. (1914). Japan to America, p. 127.
2. Bank of Japan (BOJ), 8th Governor
3. Book: Nimura, Janice P. . Janice P. Nimura . Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back . 978-0-393-07799-5 . First . New York . 241–243 . 891611002. 2015 .
4. Smitka, Michael. (1998).
5. BOJ, List of Governors.
6. Metzler, Mark. (2006).
7. Metzler,