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Saitama Bank
is a Japanese regional bank founded in Saitama Prefecture in 1943. After a series of bank mergers and corporate restructuring, the emerged as the leading bank in Saitama Prefecture. History The head office of Saitama Bank was located in Urawa, Saitama, with more than 170 branches in Japan. Overseas branches included Singapore, London, New York, Hong Kong and Brussels. In 1990, the bank's financial instability was revealed. Its directors were alleged to have mismanaged corporate assets and breached fiduciary duties by purchasing a large block of stock in a Japanese manufacturing company at what were grossly inflated prices. In 1991, Kyowa Bank and Saitama Bank merged to form one of the world's largest banks with deposits totaling about $177 billion. This was construed as triggering reorganization of Japan's banking industry. In 1992, the combined banks were renamed Asahi Bank; and this bank merged with Daiwa Bank in 2002. In 2002, corporate restructuring established Resona Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is an academic publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University. It is a member of the Association of University Presses. Its director since 2017 is George Andreou. The press maintains offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Harvard Square, and in London, England. The press co-founded the distributor TriLiteral LLC with MIT Press and Yale University Press. TriLiteral was sold to LSC Communications in 2018. Notable authors published by HUP include Eudora Welty, Walter Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, Helen Vendler, Carol Gilligan, Amartya Sen, David Blight, Martha Nussbaum, and Thomas Piketty. The Display Room in Harvard Square, dedicated to selling HUP publications, closed on June 17, 2009. Related publishers, imprints, and series HUP owns the Belknap Press imprint (trade name), imprint, which it inaugurated in May 1954 with the publication of the ''Harvard Guide to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiyoshi Izawa
Kiyoshi, (きよし or キヨシ), is a Japanese given name, also spelled Kyoshi. Possible meanings *''Kyōshi'', a form of Japanese poetry *Kyōshi, a Japanese honorific Written forms *清, "cleanse" *淳, "pure" *潔, "undefiled" *清志, "cleanse, intention" *清司, "cleanse, official" *聖, "holy" *澄, "lucidity" *潔司, "undefiled, official" People with the name * Akira Kawabata ("Kiyoshi"), pro wrestler *, Japanese sport wrestler *, Japanese pole vaulter *, Japanese film actor *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese ice hockey player *, Japanese ice hockey player *, Japanese admiral *, Japanese artist *, Japanese Enka singer *, Japanese historian and Shinto priest *, Japanese drummer of Asian Kung-Fu Generation *, a Shiatsu Master, Shiatsupractor (SPR), *, Japanese academic, historian and writer *, Japanese mathematician *, Japanese general soldier *, Japanese Christian journalist *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese businessman *, Japanese actor *, Japanese photograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank
, abbreviated as , was one of the largest banks in the world during the latter third of the 20th century. It was created in 1971 by merger of Dai-Ichi Bank, Japan's oldest bank, and Nippon Kangyo Bank, a state financial institution that granted long-term loans to industry and agriculture. In 2000, it merged with Fuji Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan to form Mizuho Financial Group. In 2002, DKB's corporate & investment banking division was transferred to Mizuho Corporate Bank, while its retail banking division was transferred to Mizuho Bank. History In 1971, Dai-ichi Bank and Nippon Kangyo Bank merged to form DKB, which instantly surpassed longtime leader the Fuji Bank as the largest Japanese bank measured by assets and deposit market share. DKB formed the core of the DKB Group (or Dai-Ichi Kangyo Group), the largest Japanese keiretsu in terms of the number of associated companies, and became the central bank of DKB Group. Taking over Nippon Kangyo and Noko's operation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Banks In Japan
This is a list of banks in Japan. Central Bank * Bank of Japan Governmental institutions National institutions Current * Development Bank of Japan (DBJ; ) * Japan Finance Corporation (JFC; ) ** Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC; ), the internal division of Japan Finance Corporation. * Okinawa Development Finance Corporation () * Shoko Chukin Bank () * Japan Housing Finance Agency () Former *Japan Post (), restructured to Japan Post Bank in 2007. *Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries Finance Corporation (AFC; ), merged to JFC in 2008. * Japan Finance Corporation for Small and Medium Enterprise (JASME; ), merged to JFC in 2008. * National Life Finance Corporation (NLFC; ), merged to JFC in 2008. * Japan Finance Corporation for Municipal Enterprises (), abolished and integrated into JFM in 2008. Postal Savings Bank *Japan Post Bank, former Japan Post's banking division and subsidiary of the successor Japan Post Holding. Regional Municipalities', Authorities' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Resona Holdings
() is the holding company of , the fifth-largest banking group in Japan as of 2012. It is headquartered in the Kiba area of Koto, Tokyo. The main operating entities of the group are Resona Bank, a nationwide corporate and retail bank headquartered in Osaka, and Saitama Resona Bank, a smaller bank headquartered in Saitama City which primarily serves Saitama Prefecture, and are thus considered to be " city banks" of Japan. Most of these banks' operations are descended from Daiwa Bank and Asahi Bank, which merged in 2003. History Daiwa Bank Resona was formed as the Osaka Nomura Bank in 1918. This entity served as the financing arm of the Nomura ''zaibatsu'' founded by Tokushichi Nomura. Its securities brokerage operation separated in 1925 to form Nomura Securities, now Japan's largest securities company. The bank was renamed Nomura Bank in 1927 and became the main bank for the Osaka Prefecture government in 1929, immediately following the 1929 stock market crash. The Nomur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brussels
Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalities, 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country. It is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, and is separate from the Flemish Region (Flanders), within which it forms an enclave, and the Walloon Region (Wallonia), located less than to the south. Brussels grew from a small rural settlement on the river Senne (river), Senne to become an important city-region in Europe. Since the end of the Second World War, it has been a major centre for international politics and home to numerous international organisations, politicians, Diplomacy, diplomats and civil servants. Brussels is the ''de facto' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional Bank (Japan)
A regional bank (''chihō ginkō'' 地方銀行 or ''chigin'' 地銀) is a Japanese term for one of the 100 banks who are members of the Regional Banks Association of Japan (''zenkoku chihōginkō kyōkai'' 全国地方銀行協会). They usually have their head office in the capital city of one of the 47 prefectures of Japan, serving mainly its local prefectural customers. Historically, regional banks in the same areas tend to merge over time, reducing overheads while increasing their strength and regional footprint. Details As of January 2025, there are 61 main regional banks. There is also a category known as "regional banks II", numbering 39 additional institutions (down from 68 in 1990), most of whom "have converted from mutual savings banks to ordinary commercial banks". The regional bank is in contrast to a City bank (Japan), city bank (''toshi ginkō'' :ja:都市銀行, 都市銀行 or ''togin'' 都銀) or "megabank" with its head office in metropolitan Tokyo, Nagoya, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong
Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing dynasty ceded Hong Kong Island in 1841–1842 as a consequence of losing the First Opium War. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and was further extended when the United Kingdom obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. Hong Kong was occupied by Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II. The territory was handed over from the United Kingdom to China in 1997. Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of one country, two systems. Originally a sparsely populated area of farming and fishing villages,. the territory is now one of the world's most signific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
