Junnosuke Inoue

Inoue Junnosuke
井上 準之助
Minister of Finance
In office
2 July 1929 – 13 December 1931
Prime MinisterHamaguchi Osachi
Wakatsuki Reijirō
Preceded byChūzō Mitsuchi
Succeeded byTakahashi Korekiyo
In office
2 September 1923 – 7 January 1924
Prime MinisterYamamoto Gonnohyōe
Preceded byOtohiko Ichiki
Succeeded byKazue Shōda
Governor of the Bank of Japan
In office
10 May 1927 – 12 June 1928
Prime MinisterTanaka Giichi
Preceded byOtohiko Ichiki
Succeeded byHisaakira Hijikata
In office
13 March 1919 – 2 September 1923
Prime MinisterHara Takashi
Takahashi Korekiyo
Katō Tomosaburō
Preceded byYatarō Mishima
Succeeded byOtohiko Ichiki
Member of the House of Peers
In office
9 January 1924 – 9 February 1932
Nominated by the Emperor
Personal details
Born(1869-05-06)6 May 1869
Died9 February 1932(1932-02-09) (aged 62)
Tokyo, Japan
Political partyRikken Minseitō
Alma materTokyo Imperial University

Junnosuke Inoue (井上 準之助, Inoue Junnosuke; May 6, 1869 – February 9, 1932) was a Japanese financier and statesman of the Taisho and Showa eras. He was the 9th and 11th Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), and Minister of Finance in 1923-1924 and 1929-1931. He was assassinated during the League of Blood Incident in 1932.

Biography

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Inoue was born in Ōita Prefecture.[1] He graduated from the Imperial University of Tokyo.

In 1896, Inoue entered the Bank of Japan and in 1897 he was a BOJ trainee along with Hisaakira Hijikata. Both young men were sent by the bank to learn about British banking practices in London.[2] From 1913-1919, Inoue was head of the Yokohama Specie Bank.[3] Inoue was Governor of the Bank of Japan from March 13, 1919 – September 2, 1923 and again from May 10, 1927 – June 1, 1928.[4]

He was Minister of Finance in 1923-1924 and 1929-1931. He briefly presided the Institute of Pacific Relations between Ray Lyman Wilbur nomination as United States Secretary of the Interior and his own second nomination as Japan Minister of Finances.

In 1932, Inoue was one of the two prominent Japanese assassinated in the League of Blood Incident.

References

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  • Metzler, Mark. (2006). Lever of Empire: the International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520244207; OCLC 469841628
  • Tamaki, Norio. (1995). Japanese banking: a History, 1859-1959. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521496766; OCLC 231677071
Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Finance
1923–1924
Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of Finance
1929–1931
Succeeded by
Government offices
Preceded by Governor of the Bank of Japan
(1st term)

1919–1923
Succeeded by
Preceded by (2nd term)
1927–1928
Succeeded by