Keizo Shibusawa

Viscount Keizō Shibusawa


Minister of Finance of Japan
In office 9 October 1945 – 22 May 1946
Prime Minister	Kijūrō Shidehara
Preceded by	Juichi Tsushima
Succeeded by	Tanzan Ishibashi
16th Governor of the Bank of Japan
In office 18 March 1944 – 9 October 1945
Preceded by	Toyotarō Yūki
Succeeded by	Eikichi Araki

Personal details
Born	(1896-08-25)August 25, 1896 Tokyo, Japan
Died	October 25, 1963(1963-10-25) (aged 67)
Alma mater	Tokyo Imperial University

Viscount Keizō Shibusawa (渋沢敬三, Shibusawa Keizō, August 25, 1896 – October 25, 1963) was a Japanese businessman, central banker, philanthropist and folklorist. He was the 16th Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ).

Early life

Shibusawa was born in Tokyo.^[1] He was the grandson of Shibusawa Eiichi.^[2]

Career

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]

Notes

^ Bank of Japan (BOJ), 16th Governor
^ ^a ^b Tamaki, Norio. (1995). Japanese Banking: a History, 1859-1959, p. 187, p. 187, at Google Books
^ BOJ, List of Governors; Werner, Richard A. (2003). Princes of the Yen: Japan's Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy, p. 147, p. 147, at Google Books
^ "Major Posts Filled in Jap Cabinet; Shaping Into Conservative Body," The Argus (Australia). 9 October 1945, p. 1; retrieved 2011-08-21
^ Izumi Koide. "Mining for Information Gold: How to get at it?" p. 2, Association for Asian Studies (AAS) conference, April 2, 2005; retrieved 2011-08-22

References

Tamaki, Norio. (1995). Japanese Banking: a History, 1859-1959. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521496766; OCLC 231677071
Werner, Richard A. (2003). Princes of the Yen: Japan's Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-7656-1048-5; OCLC 471605161

Political offices
Preceded by Juichi Tsushima	Minister of Finance 1945–1946	Succeeded by Tanzan Ishibashi
Government offices
Preceded by Toyotarō Yūki	Governor of the Bank of Japan 1944–1945	Succeeded by Eikichi Araki (1st term)