Inoue Junnosuke

Inoue Junnosuke ( Japanese 井上準之助 ; born May 6, 1869 in what was later to be Ōita Prefecture ; died February 9, 1932 ) was a Japanese banker and politician during the Taishō and early Shōwa periods .

life and work

Inoue Junnosuke graduated from the Law School of the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1896 and then worked for the Bank of Japan , spending considerable time abroad. In 1913 he became president of Yokohama Shōkin Ginkō (English Yokohama Specie Bank ), later the Bank of Tokyo , and from 1919 acted as governor of the Bank of Japan.

From 1923 to 1924 Inoue was finance minister in the Yamamoto II cabinet and tried to solve financial problems that resulted from the Kanto earthquake in 1923 . In 1927 he was again governor of the Bank of Japan, in 1928 he joined the Minseitō party and was finance minister for the second time, this time in the Hamaguchi cabinet , then in the second Wakatsuki cabinet . He implemented a strict deflationary policy in order to be able to return to the gold standard. However, this aggravated the already sizeable Depression in Japan. The cabinet resigned in December 1931 over the Manchurian crisis .

Inoue was murdered by a member of the "Blood League" while he was on a campaign trip for the 1932 general election in February 1932 .

Remarks

↑ Today part of the Mitsubishi UFJ Bank .
↑ The later so-called "Blood League" ( 血盟団 , Ketsumeidan ) was a right-wing terrorist association of impoverished peasants, which was organized by Inoue Nisshō (1886-1967) and in 1932 carried out several attacks on industrialists and bourgeois party politicians.

literature

S. Noma (Ed.): Inoue Junnosuke . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X
Hunter, Janet: Inoue Junnosuke . In: Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History. Kodansha International, 1984. ISBN 4-7700-1193-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Inoue, Junnosuke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	井上準之助 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH	May 6, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ōita Prefecture
DATE OF DEATH	February 9, 1932

[1] Today part of the Mitsubishi UFJ Bank .

[2] The later so-called "Blood League" ( 血盟団 , Ketsumeidan ) was a right-wing terrorist association of impoverished peasants, which was organized by Inoue Nisshō (1886-1967) and in 1932 carried out several attacks on industrialists and bourgeois party politicians.