Yatarō Mishima

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.[1]

Viscount Yatarō Mishima

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

Notes

1. Masaoka, Naoichi. (1914). Japan to America, p. 127.
2. Bank of Japan (BOJ), 8th Governor
3. 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.
4. Smitka, Michael. (1998). The Interwar Economy of Japan: Colonialism, Depression, and Recovery, 1910-1940, p. 30., p. 30, at Google Books
5. BOJ, List of Governors.
6. 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
7. 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

Government offices
Preceded by Korekiyo Takahashi	Governor of the Bank of Japan 1913–1919	Succeeded by Junnosuke Inoue (1st term)