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Toshihiko Fukui

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Toshihiko Fukui
29th Governor of the Bank of Japan
In office
20 March 2003 – 19 March 2008
Prime MinisterJunichirō Koizumi
Shinzō Abe
Yasuo Fukuda
Preceded byMasaru Hayami
Succeeded byMasaaki Shirakawa
Personal details
Born (1935-09-07) 7 September 1935 (age 89)
Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo[1]
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Toshihiko Fukui (福井 俊彦, Fukui Toshihiko, 7 September 1935)[2] is a Japanese economist and central banker. He was the 29th Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and a Director of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).

Early life

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Fukui was born in Osaka.[3]

Career

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Fukui has worked at Japan's central bank for 40 years. His positions included serving as the bank's representative in Paris, heading the research and credit management bureaus, and Executive Director.[4] He was head of the Banking Department from September 1986 through May 1989.[5]

In 1989, Fukui was promoted to Deputy Governor of BOJ.[5]

In 1998, Deputy Governor Fukui resigned in connection with a bribery scandal involving leaks of financially sensitive information. He joined then-Governor Yasuo Matsushita in expressing official remorse by leaving the bank.[6] He then became chairman of the Fujitsu Research Institute, a private policy group. He also became deputy chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives.[4]

Fukui was Deputy Governor of BOJ from 2002 through 2003; and he became the new BOJ governor at the end of the five-year term of Masaru Hayami.[4]

Fukui served as Governor of the Bank of Japan from March 20, 2003 to March 19, 2008.[7] He resigned in 2008.[8]

Selected works

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In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Toshihiko Fukui, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 1 works in 2 publications in 1 language and 6 library holdings.[9]

  • Recent developments of the short-term money market in Japan and changes in monetary control techiques [sic] and procedures by the Bank of Japan (1986)
  • 地球温暖化対策中期目標の解說 (2009)

Notes

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  1. ^ "公益財団法人 日本ハンドボール協会".
  2. ^ Library of Congress authority file, Toshihiko Fukui, n2010-39606
  3. ^ Bank of Japan (BOJ), 29th Governor
  4. ^ a b c Belson, Ken. "Japan, Its Finances in Disarray, Picks Old-School Central Banker," New York Times. February 25, 2003.
  5. ^ 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
  6. ^ Werner, p. 309 n.27, p. 309, at Google Books
  7. ^ BOJ, List of Governors
  8. ^ Facker, Martin. "Japan’s Central Bank Is Without Governor, a Blow to a Nation’s Prestige," New York Times. March 20, 2008.
  9. ^ WorldCat Identities: Fukui, Toshihiko; 福井俊彦 1935-  

References

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Government offices
Preceded by Governor of the Bank of Japan
2003–2008
Succeeded by