Toshihiko Fukui

Toshihiko Fukui (福井 俊彦, Fukui Toshihiko, 7 September 1935)[1] is a Japanese economist and central banker. He was the 29th Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and a Director of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).

Toshihiko Fukui
29th Governor of the Bank of Japan
In office 20 March 2003 – 19 March 2008
Prime Minister	Junichirō Koizumi Shinzō Abe Yasuo Fukuda
Preceded by	Masaru Hayami
Succeeded by	Masaaki Shirakawa
Personal details
Born	7 September 1935 Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
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Early life

Fukui was born in Osaka.[2]

Career

Fukui has worked at Japan's central bank for 40 years. His positions included serving as the bank's representative in Paris, heading the research and credit management bureaus, and Executive Director.[3] He was head of the Banking Department from September 1986 through May 1989.[4]

In 1989, Fukui was promoted to Deputy Governor of BOJ.[4]

In 1998, Deputy Governor Fukui resigned in connection with a bribery scandal involving leaks of financially sensitive information. He joined then-Governor Yasuo Matsushita in expressing official remorse by leaving the bank.[5] He then became chairman of the Fujitsu Research Institute, a private policy group. He also became deputy chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives.[3]

Fukui was Deputy Governor of BOJ from 2002 through 2003; and he became the new BOJ governor at the end of the five-year term of Masaru Hayami.[3]

Fukui served as Governor of the Bank of Japan from March 20, 2003 to March 19, 2008.[6] He resigned in 2008.[7]

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Toshihiko Fukui, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 1 works in 2 publications in 1 language and 6 library holdings.[8]

• Recent developments of the short-term money market in Japan and changes in monetary control techiques [sic] and procedures by the Bank of Japan (1986)
• 地球温暖化対策中期目標の解說 (2009)

Notes

1. Library of Congress authority file, Toshihiko Fukui, n2010-39606
2. Bank of Japan (BOJ), 29th Governor
3. Belson, Ken. "Japan, Its Finances in Disarray, Picks Old-School Central Banker," New York Times. February 25, 2003.
4. 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
5. Werner, p. 309 n.27, p. 309, at Google Books
6. BOJ, List of Governors
7. Facker, Martin. "Japan’s Central Bank Is Without Governor, a Blow to a Nation’s Prestige," New York Times. March 20, 2008.
8. WorldCat Identities: Fukui, Toshihiko; 福井俊彦 1935-  

References

• Ishii, Masayuki and Richard Werner (2003). The Bank of Japan under Toshihiko Fukui (福井日銀・危険な素顔, Fukui nichigin kikenna sugao). Tokyo: Appuru Shuppan. ISBN 9784871772181; OCLC 54655059
• 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 978-0-7656-1048-5; OCLC 471605161