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Yasushi Mieno

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Yasushi Mieno
三重野 康
26th Governor of the Bank of Japan
In office
17 December 1989 – 16 December 1994
Prime MinisterToshiki Kaifu
Kiichi Miyazawa
Morihiro Hosokawa
Tsutomu Hata
Tomiichi Murayama
Preceded bySatoshi Sumita
Succeeded byYasuo Matsushita
Personal details
Born(1924-03-17)March 17, 1924
Ōita, Japan
DiedApril 15, 2012(2012-04-15) (aged 88)
Alma materTokyo Imperial University

Yasushi Mieno (三重野 康, Mieno Yasushi, March 17, 1924 – April 15, 2012) was a Japanese businessman, central banker, the 26th Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and a Director of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).[1][2]

Early life

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Mieno was born in Ōita.[3]

Career

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From April 1975 through February 1978, Mieno was head of the BOJ banking department.[4]

Mieno was BOJ Governor from December 17, 1989, to December 16, 1994,[5] having previously served as Deputy Governor from 1984 to 1989.[4] Starting a week after his appointment, from late December 1989 until August 1990, BOJ heavily increased interest rates. Soon the Japanese asset price bubble of the 1980s collapsed.[6]

In 1994, he was an elected member of the BIS Board of Directors.[1]

On April 15, 2012, Mieno died from heart failure in a Tokyo hospital.[2]

Selected works

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In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Yasushi Mieno, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 7 works in 10 publications in 2 languages and 50+ library holdings.[7]

  • World Economy in the 1990s: a Japanese Central Banker's View (1990)
  • Current Monetary and Economic Conditions in Japan (1993)
  • 日本経済と中央銀行―前日銀総裁講演録 (1995)
  • 利を見て義を思う: 三重野康の金融政策講義 (2000)

Notes

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  1. ^ a b Siegman, Charles J. "The Bank for International Settlements and the Federal Reserve," Federal Reserve Bulletin. October 1, 1994.
  2. ^ a b Mayumi Otsuma (April 18, 2012). "Mieno, Governor Who Pricked Japan's Bubble Economy, Dies". Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on April 24, 2012. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
  3. ^ Bank of Japan (BOJ), 26th Governor
  4. ^ a b Werner, Richard A. (2003). Princes of the Yen: Japan's Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy, p. 147, p. 147, at Google Books
  5. ^ BOJ, List of Governors
  6. ^ Rosa, Sandro. "Dreissig Jahre japanische Spekulationsblase". themarket.ch. The Market Media AG, Zürich (NZZ). Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  7. ^ WorldCat Identities: Mieno, Yasushi 1924-  

References

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Government offices
Preceded by Governor of the Bank of Japan
1989–1994
Succeeded by