East meets West, Banking in the Pacific Area.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	05044024
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	Joint Research
Research Institution	KEIO UNIVERSITY
Principal Investigator	TAMAKI Norio Keio University, 商学部, 教授 (80051621)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	マイケルモスグラスゴウ大学, 文書館, 館長マーガレットリー香港上海銀行, 文書館, 館長デイヴッドメレットメルボルン大学, 経済学部, 教授フランクキング香港大学, 名誉教授ジェフリージョーンズレディング大学, 経済学部, 教授エドウィン・グリーングリーンミッドランド銀行, 文書館, 館長オリーヴ・チェックランドチェックランドグラスゴウ大学, 名誉研究員ロンドキャメロンエモリー大学, 経済学部, 教授ウベルトボーナンボルドー大学, 歴史学部, 教授マツシモベッバーケンブリッジ大学, セルウィン・コレッジ, 講師 ISHII Kanji University of Tokyo, 経済学部, 教授 (20012122) HAMASHITA Takeshi University of Tokyo, 東洋文化研究所, 教授 (90126368) NISHIMURA Shizuya Hosei University, 経営学部, 教授 (30061039) KING Frank University of Hongkong JONES Geoffrey University of Reading GREEN Edwin Midland Bank CHECKLAND Olive University of Glasgow CAMERON Rondo Emory University BONIN Hubert University of Bordeaux BEBER Massimo University of Cambridge MERRETT David University of Melbourne MOSS Michael University of Glasgow LEE Margarett Hongkong & Shanghai Bank
Project Period (FY)	1993
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 1993)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000) Fiscal Year 1993: ¥2,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000)
Keywords	Banking / Pacific / Asia / Japan / China / Britain / France / America
Research Abstract	The project conference was held between 13 and 16 September 1994 in Tokyo. From overseas, twelve distinguished scholars joined 4 Japanese colleagues. At the conference fourteen papers were given and some forty Japanese observers participated in the discussions, which could be summarized as follows. The Japanese determination to control their own overseas trade and the profits therefrom, led to the establishment of the Yokohama Specie Bank in 1880. It was this same bank, by the outbreak of the Pacific War a tool in the hands of the Japanese military, which the Americans resolved to destroy during the occupation after 1945. The Chinese, and the Asian peoples, although involved in the remittance business and in other lowly banking functions, were during this century, unable to establish themselves as independent bankers. But it was the British who, certainly until 1914, and in some senses until 1939, dominated Pacific banking. Their multinational banks, led by the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, were able for most of the century to maintain London as the center of an international money market. Other colonial powers, including France, had their own priorities to develop their own monetary empire with Paris as its center. There is also discussion here of the banking personnel, whether English, French, Italian(in California), Japanese or Scots who made international banking their business. By developing the theme of East meets West and exploring the implications of colonialism in Pacific banking, the project made much new material available.