Juichi Soyeda and Tadao Kamiya, most likely at the Publishers Association of New York in 1913

Juichi Soyeda (Japanese: 添田壽一), (1864-1929), was a Japanese lawyer,^[1] senior civil servant and academic economist. In 1913 he was delegated by the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce in Japan to study the California Alien Land Law of 1913.^[2]

[edit] Biography

He was born in Fukuoka in September 1864 and graduated from School of Politics and Economics at Tokyo Imperial University in 1884, and continued his studies at Cambridge University and University of Heidelberg, returning home in 1887. That same year he was appointed councilor in the Treasury Department, and then successively private secretary, secretary, and Director of Superintendance Bureau, in the same department; became its Vice-Minister in 1898; shortly afterwards he resigned his post and became lecturer of economics and public finance at Tokyo Imperial University and several other institutions; in 1899, was appointed president of the Bank of Formosa; then chairman of Japan Credit Mobilier Commission, and in 1902, was made president of the newly-established Japan Credit Mobilier. He was for many years Japan correspondent of the Economic Journal. He took an active part in Japanese monetary reform work, including the adoption of the gold standard in 1897. In 1913, he visited the United States as representative of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce, in connection with the California Alien Land Law of 1913.^[1] He died in 1929.

[edit] Publications

• A survey of the Japanese question in California (1913)
• A History of Banking in Japan (2002 reprint; first published in 1896 as one part of William Graham Sumner (ed.) A History of Banking in All the Leading Nations).

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