, also referred to as Juichi Soyeda, was a Japanese lawyer, senior civil servant and academic economist. In 1913 he was delegated by the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce in Japan to study the

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Biography

He was born in

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on September 15, 1864. He graduated from School of Politics and Economics at

Tokyo Imperial University The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public university, public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several Edo peri ...

in 1884, and continued his studies at

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and

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, He returned to Japan in 1887. That same year he was appointed councilor in the Japanese Treasury Department, and then successively private secretary, secretary, and Director of Superintendence Bureau, in the same department; became its Vice-Minister in 1898; shortly afterwards he resigned his post and became lecturer of economics and public finance at

and several other institutions; in 1899, was appointed president of the Bank of Formosa; then chairman of Japan Credit Mobilier Commission, and in 1902, was made president of the newly established Japan Credit Mobilier. He was for many years Japan correspondent of

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. He took an active part in Japanese monetary reform work, including the adoption of the

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in 1897. In 1913, he visited the United States as representative of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce, in connection with the

. He died on July 4, 1929.

Publications

*A survey of the Japanese question in California (1913) *''A History of Banking in Japan''. 2002 reprint; first published in 1896 as one part of '' A History of Banking in all the Leading Nations'', "edited by the editor of the '' Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin''" (i.e. William Dodsworth).

References

External links

Manuscript notes by Juichi Soyeda held at the University of London
{{DEFAULTSORT:Soyeda, Juichi 1864 births 1929 deaths People from Fukuoka 19th-century Japanese lawyers Japanese civil servants Japanese economists Japanese bankers University of Tokyo alumni Alumni of the University of Cambridge Heidelberg University alumni