was a Japanese financier and statesman of the Taisho and Showa eras. He was the 9th and 11th Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), and Minister of Finance in 1923-1924 and 1929-1931. He was assassinated during the League of Blood Incident in 1932.

Biography

Inoue was born in Ōita Prefecture. He graduated from the Imperial University of Tokyo. In 1896, Inoue entered the Bank of Japan and in 1897 he was a BOJ trainee along with Hisaakira Hijikata. Both young men were sent by the bank to learn about British banking practices in London. From 1913-1919, Inoue was head of the Yokohama Specie Bank. Inoue was Governor of the Bank of Japan from March 13, 1919 – September 2, 1923 and again from May 10, 1927 – June 1, 1928.BOJ
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He was Minister of Finance in 1923-1924 and 1929-1931. He briefly presided the Institute of Pacific Relations between Ray Lyman Wilbur nomination as

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and his own second nomination as Japan Minister of Finances. In 1932, Inoue was one of the two prominent Japanese assassinated in the League of Blood Incident.

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References

* Metzler, Mark. (2006). ''Lever of Empire: the International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan.'' Berkeley: University of California Press.
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* Tamaki, Norio. (1995). ''Japanese banking: a History, 1859-1959.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
OCLC 231677071
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