• Preface; Genealogy of leading Japanese banks 1859–1959; Abbreviations; Part I. A Bankrupt Shogunate 1859–68: 1. Japanese merchant bankers: Ryogae; 2. A bankrupt regime; 3. Ryogae, struggling for survival?; 4. The arrival of Western banking; Part II. The Meiji Restoration: Monetary Confusion and Banking Experiments, 1868–81: 5. The first banking experiment; 6. The national bank system: American influence; 7. The origins of ordinary banking: another bank mania; 8. Search for stability: the last bank controversy; Part III. Matsukata, the Wizard of Japanese Banking 1881–97, the Yokohama Specie Bank (1880), and the Bank of Japan (1882): 9. The Bank of Japan, or Nichigin; 10. The Yokohama Specie Bank or Shokin; 11. Consolidation and expansion; 12. The adoption of gold standard; Part IV. The Japanese on the London Money Market, 1897–1911: 13. The 'Siamese twins': Nichigin and Shokin; 14. Special banking; 15. Banking at the end of the Meiji era; 16. Banking and the securities market; Part V. War: The Japanese Boom Years, 1911–19: 17. Bank of Japan money supply; 18. The expansion of special banking; 19. Ordinary and savings banks: the search for strength; 20. Other financial sectors in the boom years; Part VI. Crisis and the Road to War, 1919–37: 21. Post war collapse, 1919–23; 22. 1923 catastrophic earthquake, 1927 financial disaster, and the new Bank Act; 23. Financing heavy industries; 24. The challenge of militarism and a change of roles for Nichigin and Shokin; Part VII. Complete Commitment, Struggles, and Defeat, 1937–45: 25. War budgets and the mobilisation of national resources; 26. Extraordinary banking business during the national emergency; 27. Crisis, 1945; Part VIII. American 'Democratization' and the Search for Growth, 1945–59: 28. MacArthur's directives; 29. Remaking the banking system: the Japanese vs. the Americans; 30. Rise of governmental banking and the search for stability: the Japanese initiatives; 31. The post-war system; 32. An extraordinary century, 1859–1959; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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