was a Japanese businessman, central banker, the 26th Governor of the

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(BOJ) and a Director of the

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"The Bank for International Settlements and the Federal Reserve,"
''Federal Reserve Bulletin.'' October 1, 1994.

Early life

Mieno was born in Ōita.

Career

From April 1975 through February 1978, Mieno was head of the BOJ banking department.Werner, Richard A. (2003). Mieno was BOJ Governor from December 17, 1989, to December 16, 1994, having previously served as Deputy Governor from 1984 to 1989. Starting a week after his appointment, from late December 1989 until August 1990, BOJ heavily increased

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s. Soon the

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of the 1980s collapsed. In 1994, he was an elected member of the BIS Board of Directors. On April 15, 2012, Mieno died from

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in a Tokyo hospital.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Yasushi Mieno,

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Mieno, Yasushi 1924-
/ref> * ''World Economy in the 1990s: a Japanese Central Banker's View'' (1990) * ''Current Monetary and Economic Conditions in Japan'' (1993) * (1995) * (2000)

Notes

References

* Werner, Richard A. (2003). ''Princes of the Yen: Japan's Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy.'' Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe.
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