Yokohama Specie Bank

Yokohama Specie Bank (横浜正金銀行, Yokohama Shōkin Ginkō) was a Japanese bank founded in Yokohama, Japan in the year 1880. Its assets were transferred to The Bank of Tokyo (now The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ) in 1946. The bank played a significant role in Japanese trade with China.[1] The original bank building is now the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History. During the Second World War the bank controversially acted as the paymaster for the Imperial Japanese Army as it conquered parts of Asia.

The Yokohama Specie Bank (now The Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History)
Kobe branch (now The Kobe City Museum)
Nagasaki branch
Shanghai, China branch
Beijing, China branch
Tianjin, China branch
Dalian, China branch
Honolulu, Hawaii branch
The Yokohama Specie Bank during WWII

History

Institutional

International expansion

Miscellaneous

Past presidents

See also

Media related to Yokohama Specie Bank at Wikimedia Commons

References

  1. The Yokohama Specie Bank Building - built in 1924 (No. 24, The Bund) Archived 12 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. "The Torpedoed "Hirano Maru"". The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser. 13 December 1918. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
  3. "独政府を相手に損害賠償の訴え". Osaka Asahi Shinbun. 10 July 1919. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
  4. Tamaki, Norio. (1995). Japanese banking: a History, 1859-1959, p. 120, p. 120, at Google Books

Further reading


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