Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 August 2010
This brief survey gives an overview of the research on Japanese financial and monetary history based on the records of the Bank of Japan Archives. We briefly describe the Bank of Japan's organizational history, the activities of the Archives, their history and the classification of documents preserved in the Archives. We finally survey the recent research in Japanese economic history from the viewpoint of materials in the Archives.
2 The information above is based on Bank of Japan, Outline of the Bank of Japan (www.boj.or.jp/en/type/exp/about/expboj.htm).
3 The information above is based on Bank of Japan, Mission and Activities of the Bank of Japan (www.boj.or.jp/en/type/exp/about/mission.htm).
4 All catalogues are available in Japanese only. www.imes.boj.or.jp/english/archive_english/holdings.html
5 ‘Micro-aspects of monetary policy: lender of last resort and selection of banks in pre-war Japan’, Explorations in Economic History, 44 (2007), pp. 657–79.
6 ‘The failure of the Fujita Bank and its liquidation’ (‘Fujita Ginko no hatan to sono seiri’), in Ishii, Kanji and Sugiyama, Kazuo (eds.), Regional Banks in Financial Crisis: An Analysis of the Interwar Period (Kin'yu kiki to chiho ginko-senkan ki no bunseki) (Tokyo, 2001), pp. 383–413Google Scholar.
7 ‘Financial crises and local banks’ (‘Senkanki no kin'yu kiki to chiho ginko’), in Ishii and Sugiyama (eds.), Regional Banks in Financial Crisis, pp. 3–22.
8 ‘Securities investment of the major banks in the Chugoku region’ (‘Chugoku chiho yuryoku ginko no yukashoken toshi’), in Ishii and Sugiyama (eds.), Regional Banks in Financial Crisis, pp. 245–68.
9 ‘Establishment and liquidation of the Shinano Bank’ (‘Shinano Ginko no shinritsu to sono seiri’), in Ishii and Sugiyama (eds.), Regional Banks in Financial Crisis, pp. 221–44.
10 ‘Failure of the Wakao Bank and bank runs’ (‘Wakao Ginko no hatan to ginko doyo’), in Ishii and Sugiyama (eds.), Regional Banks in Financial Crisis, pp. 197–20.
11 ‘Bailing-out and failure of the Omi Bank’ (‘Omi Ginko no kyusai to hatan’), in Ishii and Sugiyama (eds.), Regional Banks in Financial Crisis, pp. 415–39; and ‘Hyakusanju Bank and Matsumoto Jutaro’ (‘Hyakusanju Ginko to Matsumoto Jutaro’), in Ishii, Kanji, The Financial History of Modern Japan (Kindai nihon kin'yu shi josetsu) (Tokyo, 1999), pp. 309–67Google Scholar.
12 ‘Management of the local banks in Akita prefecture’ (‘Akita ken ni okeru chiho ginko keiei’), in Ishii and Sugiyama (eds.), Regional Banks in Financial Crisis, pp. 155–72.
13 ‘The inspection of banks by the ministry of finance in wartime Japan 1935–1945, with special reference to prudential regulation’ (‘Senji taiseika ni okeru Okurasho kensa’), in The Socio-Economic History Society, Socio-Economic History (Shakai keizaishi gaku), 70.6 (2005).
14 ‘Bank amalgamation project for the local banks in Fukuoka prefecture’ (‘Fukuoka ken chiho ginko no dai godo keikaku’), in Ishii and Sugiyama (eds.), Regional Banks in Financial Crisis, pp. 269–304.
15 ‘Bank amalgamation policy of the BOJ (1940–1945)’ (‘Nippon Ginko no ginko togo koso, 1940–1945’), in Ito, Masanao, Tsurumi, Masayoshi and Asai, Yoshio (eds.), Financial Crises and Innovation from the Past to the Present (Kin'yu kiki to kakushin-rekishi kara gendai e (Tokyo, 2000)Google Scholar.
16 ‘Myth of “the Keynesian before Keynes”: low interest rate policy in the early 1930s in Japan’, Kobe University Discussion Paper Series, no. 191, 2006.
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19 ‘Monetary policy of the Bank of Japan’ (‘Nippon Ginko kin'yu seisaku no tenkai’), in Imuta, Yoshimitsu (ed.), Financial Structure of the World War II Regime (Senji taisei ka no kin'yu kozo) (Tokyo, 1991), pp. 197–205Google Scholar.
20 ‘Japan's participation in the IMF article VIII countries: Japan and the IMF 1952–1964, part I’ (‘IMF hachijo koku iko to boeki/kawase jiyuka (jo)’), The Institute for Economic Studies Seijo University, Discussion Paper no. 42, 2005.
21 ‘Japanese participation in the BIS’, Research Paper Series 22, Faculty of Economics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, March 2001.
22 ‘The Bank of Japan network and financial market integration: from the establishment of the Bank of Japan to the early 20th century’, Monetary and Economic Studies, 25.1 (March 2007).
23 ‘Institutions, competition, and capital market integration in Japan’, Journal of Economic History, 69 (2009), pp. 138–171.
24 ‘Financial crises and transformation of the interbank market in pre-war Japan’ (‘Senzen ki ni okeru kin'yu kiki to intabanku shijo no henbo’), in Ito, Masanao, Tsurumi, Masayoshi and Asai, Yoshio (eds.), Financial Crises and Innovation from the Past to the Present (Kin'yu kiki to kakushin-rekishi kara gendai e) (Tokyo, 2000)Google Scholar.
25 ‘The reform of the government bond market in pre-war Japan: opening of the government bond market at the stock exchange in Tokyo and Osaka in 1920’ (‘Senzen nihon no kokusai shijo kaikaku: 1920 nen no kokusai shijo kaisetsu’), Securities Research (Shoken keizai kenkyu), 57 (2007).
26 ‘Did the structure of trade and foreign debt affect reserve currency competition? Evidence from interwar Japan’, European Review of Economic History, 13.3 (special issue) (2009), pp. 319–347.
27 ‘Business cycle and economic policy’ (‘Keiki junkan to keizai seisaku’), in Ishii, Kanji, Hara, Akira and Takeda, Haruhito (eds.), Socio-Economic History of Modern Japan, vol. 3: Inter War Period (Nihon keizai shi 3 ryo taisen kan ki) (Tokyo, 2002)Google Scholar.
28 ‘A quantitative review of Japan's specie holdings in the 1920s’ (‘1920 nendai nihon no seika shushi no suryoteki bunseki’), Mita Journal of Economics (Mita gakkai zasshi), 96.31 (2003).
29 ‘Policy debates on public finance between the ministry of finance and the Bank of Japan from 1930 to 1936’, Monetary and Economic Studies, 21.4 (2003).
30 ‘Open-market operations by the Bank of Japan and regional banks during World War II’ (‘Senji taiseika ni okeru Nippon Ginko no kin'yu chosetsu to chiho ginko’), Socio-Economic History, 72.5 (2007).
31 Tokyo, 2005.
32 ‘The Bank of Japan's branches and the local economy: the case of the Matsuyama branch’ (‘Ryo taisen ki no nichigin shiten kaisetsu to chiiki: Nichigin Matsuyama shiten wo jirei ni’), Journal of Political Economy and Economic History (Rekishi to keizai), 196 (2007).
33 ‘Establishment of the unified settlement system of domestic money orders’ (‘Naikoku kawase shuchu kessai seido no seiritsu’), in Imuta, Yoshimitsu (ed.), Financial Structure of the World War II Regime (Senji taisei ka no kin'yu kozo) (Tokyo, 1991), pp. 222–5Google Scholar.
