Seihin Ikeda - Seihin Ikeda

Japanese: 池田成彬 - いけだしげあき

Born: July 16, 1867 (Keio 3) in Yonezawa
[Died] October 9, 1950. A banker from the Taisho to early Showa periods in Tokyo, and leader of the Mitsui zaibatsu. Born as the eldest son of a samurai of the Yonezawa domain, he graduated from Keio University in 1888 and studied at Harvard University. After returning to Japan, he worked for the Jiji Shimpo newspaper before joining the Mitsui Bank in 1895. He became a managing director in 1909, and with his rationalistic sensibility and execution, he developed the Mitsui Bank into one of Japan's leading banks. He became a director of the Mitsui Company in 1932 and a managing director in 1933, and assumed a leading position in the Mitsui zaibatsu. He also carried out reforms at Mitsui, including the public offering of stock holdings and the mandatory retirement age for executives. He retired from Mitsui in 1936, and served as the Governor of the Bank of Japan in 1937, and Minister of Finance and Minister of Commerce and Industry in the first Konoe Cabinet in 1938.

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Japanese:

[生]慶応3(1867).7.16. 米沢
[没]1950.10.9. 東京
大正から昭和前期の銀行家，三井財閥の指導者。米沢藩士の長男として生まれ，1888年慶應義塾を卒業し，ハーバード大学に学んだ。帰国後『時事新報』を経て 1895年三井銀行に入社。 1909年常務取締役となり，以来合理主義的な感覚と実行力で，三井銀行を日本の代表的銀行に発展させた。 1932年三井合名の理事，1933年同常務理事となり，三井財閥の指導者の地位につくとともに，持ち株の公開，重役の定年制などを実行し，三井の改革を遂行した。 1936年三井を退き，1937年日本銀行総裁，1938年第1次近衛内閣の大蔵大臣兼商工大臣などを歴任した。

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