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Nippon Kangyo Bank

Original head office building of Nippon Kangyo Bank in Tokyo, photographed upon completion in 1899
Tokyo head office building as rebuilt in 1926, photographed in 1967
The original head office as reconstructed in 1965 in Chiba, lately head office of Chiba Toyopet Company[1]
Former branch in Taipei, lately the Historical Museum of the Land Bank of Taiwan[2]

The Nippon Kangyo Bank or Hypothec Bank of Japan (Japanese: 日本勧業銀行) was a major Japanese bank headquartered in Tokyo, established in 1897 as the first of a string of policy institutions ("special banks") that subsequently included Bank of Taiwan (est. 1899), Hokkaido Takushoku Bank (est. 1900), and Industrial Bank of Japan (est. 1902), with the aim to promote agriculture and industrial development by providing mortgage ("hypothecary") loans.[3]: 16 

In 1971, Nippon Kangyo Bank merged with Dai-Ichi Bank to form the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, subsequently Japan's largest bank and a predecessor to Mizuho Financial Group.

  1. ^ "Former Nippon kangyo Bank, the head office (Chiba City)". Studio Sakyo Paper Garden. 19 August 2007.
  2. ^ "National Taiwan Museum - Land Bank Exhibition Hall". Ministry of Culture.
  3. ^ Masanobu KONNO (2003), "A historical inquiry into the Japanese financial system and economic performance" (PDF), The Economic Journal of Takasaki City University of Economics (46:1): 15–32

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