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Yoshihara Shigetoshi
Photo: Shigekazu Yoshihara, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons10

Yoshihara Shigetoshi

First Governor of the Bank of Japan (1845-1887)1

Yoshihara Shigetoshi (吉原 重俊; May 15, 1845 – December 19, 1887) was a Japanese diplomat and first Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ).2

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Born May 15, 1845, died Dec 19, 1887.1

Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedYale University3

Early life

Yoshihara was born in Satsuma Domain (modern Kagoshima Prefecture as the son of a samurai retainer to the Shimazu clan. As a youth, he was the youngest of the Sonnō jōi samurai to participate in the "Terada-ya Incident", an assassination attempt against Sakamoto Ryōma at the Terada-ya inn in Kyoto. During the Anglo-Satsuma War of 1863, he fought alongside Ōyama Iwao and Saigō Tsugumichi. After the end of the conflict, he was sent to Edo, and then to Hakodate, where he was ordered to study rangaku and western customs under Takeda Ayasaburō. He then went to Yokohama to learn English from Samuel Robbins Brown.

From Wikipedia’s article on Yoshihara Shigetoshi (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Career

Occupation: diplomat, banker.6

  • 1882 to 1887Governor of the Bank of Japan4
  • 1882 to 1887Chair, Bank of Japan5

Personal life

  • BornMay 15, 1845, Kagoshima7
  • CitizenshipJapan8

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