The National Banks in Meiji Japan were a system of organization of the Japanese banking system created in the 1870s, inspired by the U.S. National Bank Act of the previous decade.
First building of the Dai-Ichi ("First") National Bank in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, photographed across Kaiun Bridge in the late 19th century
Tenth Bank building in Yamanashi (ca. 1888)
Fifteenth National Bank building in Tokyo (1910)
Twenty-seventh Bank building in Tokyo (1910)
Matsukata Masayoshi
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Prince Matsukata Masayoshi was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1891 to 1892, and from 1896 to 1898. Born in the Satsuma Domain to a samurai family, Matsukata served as
Matsukata, unknown date
Matsukata wearing the Order of St Michael and St George