Affairs for the same period. From May 1937, Yūki was also appointed to a seat in the Upper House of the Diet of Japan. During the 1st Konoe administration, July 27, 1937 on Yūki returned to the Bank of Japan as governor, replacing Shigeaki Ikeda. He held the post until March 18, 1944. During Yūki's tenure, the bank was reorganized in 1942. However, Yūki was removed from his office by the Finance Minister with the support of the Tōjō cabinet in 1944. Yuki had opposed giving the Munitions Minister the authority to approve loans to munitions companies without consultation with the bank, and Tōjō was both Prime Minister and Munitions Minister at the time Following World War II, Yūki retired from public life, and moved to Mie Prefecture, where he became the chief kannushi of the Yuki Jinja Shinto shrine. He died in 1951, and his grave is at the Aoyama Cemetery in Tokyo. In 1995, the town of Akayu opened a memorial museum in his honor. References Fuji Ginkō. (1967). Banking in modern Japan. Tokyo: Fuji Bank, Research Division. OCLC 1050668 Henning, C. Randall. (1994). Currencies and Politics in the United States, Germany, and Japan. Washington, DC : Institute for International Economics. ; OCLC 28890661 Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 58053128 Tamaki, Norio. (1995). Japanese banking: a History, 1859–1959.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ; OCLC 231677071 Notes External links |- 1877 births 1951 deaths Ministers of Finance of Japan Government ministers of Japan Governors of the Bank of Japan Japanese bankers Kannushi Members of the House of Peers (Japan) People from Yamagata Prefecture University of Tokyo alumni