Tadashi Sasaki (banker)

Tadashi Sasaki

Tadashi Sasaki (佐々木直 Sasaki Tadashi, 1907 – 1988) was a Japanese central banker and 22nd Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ).

Early life

Sasaki was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture.^[1]

Career

Sasaki was BOJ Governor from December 17, 1969 to December 16, 1974.^[2] Immediately prior, he had been Deputy Governor.^[3]

During Sasaki's tenure, BOJ became a shareholder of the Bank for International Settlements BIS); however, in 1970, the head of the Japanese central bank was not invited to become a member of the BIS Board of Directors.^[4]

Japan experienced an unexpectedly high rate of economic growth in 1972, which marked a significant change from the bank's policy of "economic growth first" in the years since the end of World War II.^[5]

Notes

1. Bank of Japan, 22nd Governor
2. BOJ, List of Governors
3. 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
4. Toniolo, Gianni. (2005). Central Bank Cooperation at the Bank for International Settlements, 1930-1973, p. 361., p. 361, at Google Books
5. Ofusa, Junnosuke. "Japanese Study Nature of Boom," New York Times. January 21, 1973.

References

• Toniolo, Gianni. (2005). Central Bank Cooperation at the Bank for International Settlements, 1930–1973. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-84551-3
• Werner, Richard A. (2003). Princes of the Yen: Japan's Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 0-7656-1048-5