営業の観点から見た日本の民間銀行 : 1931年から1945年までの経営史の一考察

This essay reconsiders the part played by the largest private sector banks in the Japanese economy during the years between the Manchurian Incident (1931) and the end of the Pacific War (1945). In contrast to much of the previous writing on prewar and wartime finance, which places the emphasis on the importance of the state and public policy in directing the actions of the financial industry, this research note gives primacy to the actions the banks themselves took to obtain funds and to use those funds productively and profitably. Drawing on the accounts presented by the six biggest banks in the corporate histories they have published from time to time, I argue that private sector bankers concentrated on trying to build and maintain safe and sound business, and wanted an environment in which business could prosper. While they complied with changes in political conditions and regulations and even at times aggressively pursued new business related to military expansion and war, and while some bankers expressed strongly patriotic sentiments, a number of senior executives also voiced concerns that the economic controls introduced by the government after the outbreak of war in China in 1937 were against the interests of a healthy financial industry, and they lamented the progressive erosion of the discretionary credit decision-making powers of bank managers. By adapting to circumstance and acting opportunistically to make the best of a bad situation, private sector bankers abetted the war-making of the Japanese state

Informal Diplomacy in Meiji Japan : The Visits of General Grant and Crown Prince Nicholas Alexandrovich

国立ロシア人文大学, モスクワ大学, 2007年10月31日-11月2

lntroduction to Part 2

Historiography and Japanese Consciousness of Values and Norms, カリフォルニア大学 サンタ・バーバラ校, カリフォルニア大学 ロサンゼルス校, 2001年1

Foreword

Globalization, Localization, and Japanese Studies in the Asia-Pacific Region : Past, Present, Future, シンガポール Orchard Parade Hotel, 2004年10月28日-31

Foreword

Globalization, Localization, and Japanese Studies in the Asia-Pacific Region : Past, Present, Future, シドニー大学, 2003年11月10日-13

A Japanese Banker Views the South Seas : An Assessment of Opportunity and Risk in Prewar Southeast Asia

Globalization, Localization, and Japanese Studies in the Asia-Pacific Region : Past, Present, Future, シンガポール Orchard Parade Hotel, 2004年10月28日-31