Keizo Shibusawa

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Viscount
Keizō Shibusawa
渋沢 敬三
Minister of Finance
In office
9 October 1945 – 22 May 1946
Prime MinisterKijūrō Shidehara
Preceded byJuichi Tsushima
Succeeded byTanzan Ishibashi
16th Governor of the Bank of Japan
In office
18 March 1944 – 9 October 1945
Prime MinisterHideki Tojo
Kuniaki Koiso
Kantaro Suzuki
Naruhiko Higashikuni
Preceded byToyotarō Yūki
Succeeded byEikichi Araki
Member of the House of Peers
In office
17 March 1945 – 10 June 1946
Nominated by the Emperor
Personal details
Born(1896-08-25)25 August 1896
Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan
Died25 October 1963(1963-10-25) (aged 67)
Minato, Tokyo, Japan
PartyIndependent
RelativesShibusawa Eiichi (grandfather)
Hozumi Nobushige (uncle)
Sakatani Yoshirō (uncle)
Kiuchi Jūshirō (father-in-law)
Alma materTokyo Imperial University

Viscount Keizō Shibusawa (渋沢 敬三, Shibusawa Keizō; August 25, 1896 – October 25, 1963) was a Japanese businessman, central banker, politician, philanthropist, and folklorist. He served as the 16th Governor of the Bank of Japan and later as Minister of Finance in the immediate postwar government of Kijūrō Shidehara.

Early life

Shibusawa was born in Tokyo into a prominent family. He was the grandson of Shibusawa Eiichi, a noted industrialist and economic reformer.[1][2]

Career

Shibusawa served as Governor of the Bank of Japan from 18 March 1944 to 9 October 1945.[3] He resigned from the post to become Minister of Finance in October 1945, under the cabinet of Prime Minister Kijūrō Shidehara.[4]

During his tenure as finance minister, Shibusawa oversaw initial steps toward the dissolution of the zaibatsu, Japan's large industrial and financial conglomerates, as part of postwar economic reforms.[2]

Beyond finance and politics, Shibusawa was also known for his contributions to cultural preservation and academia. He was instrumental in forming the core ethnographic collections of what later became the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka.[5]

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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.