Satoshi Sumita
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was a Japanese
Japanese people
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 businessman, central banker, the 25th Governor of the Bank of Japan
Bank of Japan
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 (BOJ) during a period in which Japan became the world's largest creditor nation.

Career

In the 1960s, Sumita was made director of the Banking Bureau within the Japanese Ministry of Finance
Ministry of Finance (Japan)
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. He gained international experience as president of the semi-official Japan Export-Import Bank
Japan Bank for International Cooperation
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 (JEXIM).

Sumita was Governor of the Bank of Japan from December 17, 1984 to December 16, 1989, having previously served as Finance Minister from 1979 to 1984.

In September 1988, he represented Japan at a meeting of the Group of Seven
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 (G7) in Bonn. In March 1989, he was the head of Japan's delegation at meetings of the G7, the International Monetary Fund
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 and the World Bank
World Bank
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.

According to Finance Minister
Minister of Finance (Japan)
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 Ryutaro Hashimoto
Ryutaro Hashimoto
was a Japanese politician who served as the 82nd and 83rd Prime Minister of Japan from January 11, 1996 to July 30, 1998. He was the leader of one of the largest factions within the ruling LDP through most of the 1990s and remained a powerful back-room player in Japanese politics until scandal...

, Sumita "served during a very difficult time". Sumita's easy monetary policies were credited with creating a rise in stock and property values in the late 1980s, a phenomenon known as the bubble economy.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Satoshi Sumita, OCLC
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/WorldCat
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encompasses roughly 8 works in 10+ publications in 3 languages and 30+ library holdings.
  • 財政投融資: 昭和 34年度 (1959)
  • 忘れがたき日日七十五年: 澄田智回想錄 (1992)
  • 多国籍企業の実態: 外務省多国籍企業調查団報告書 (1973)
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