Bank of Taiwan
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The Bank of Taiwan is a commercial bank headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. It was established in 1897–1899 as a Japanese policy institution or "special bank", similarly as the Nippon Kangyo Bank, Hokkai
Head office building in Taipei
Bank of Taiwan advert in The Economist, 1917
Bank of Taiwan Department of Public Treasury, Taipei
Bank of Taiwan Department of Economic Research, Taipei
Bank of Chōsen
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The Bank of Chōsen, known from 1909 to 1911 as the Bank of Korea and transcribed after 1945 as Bank of Joseon, was a colonial bank that served as bank of issue for Korea under Japanese rule as well as
Bank of Taiwan
…or "special bank", similarly as the Nippon Kangyo Bank (est. 1897), Hokkaido Takushoku Bank (est. 1900), Industrial Bank of Japan (est. 1902), and Bank of Chōsen (est. 1909). Its aim was to finance industrial demand in Japanese-ruled Taiwan and also to promote trade between South China, Southeast Asia and the…
Head office in Keijō, before 1945
Ichihara Morihiro (1858-1915), the first president of the Bank of Korea / Bank of Chōsen
Aerial view of the Bank of Chōsen's head office (center) in the late 1910s. Also visible are the Keijō Post Office (completed 1915) on the right and the newly extended Jongno in the background, with the first Seoul City Hall (behind the bank) and the Chōsen Hotel (1914, behind the Post Office)
Head office upon completion in 1912