title: Japanese Banking: A History, 1859-1959 (Studies in Macroeconomic History)
author:  Norio Tamaki 
description: "...a useful addition to all banking and finance collections." Choice<br /><br />"This book offers a useful overview of Japan's banking institutions as they evolved....it provides material not readily accessible in other English-language literature. The author also does a good job of setting the development of Japanese banking into the larger context of Japan's modern history. The result is a book...too thoughtful to dismiss as superfiical. It would be a mistake, however, to understate the value of the book. This book treats one aspect of the problem from a perspective that is thoughtful, thought-provoking, and not mired in the theoretical assumptions that shape much Western literature on the subject. A careful reader will find much in it about which to think." Elizabeth P. Tsunoda<br /><br />"This book offers a useful overview of Japan's banking institutions as they evolved.... Drawn largely from Japanese sources, it provides material not readily accessible in other English-language literature. The author also does a good job of setting the development of Japanese into the larger context of Japan's modern history. A careful reader will find much in it about which to think." Elizabeth P. Tsunoda, The Historian
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  # Aiming High
  
  A Biography of Masayoshi Son
  
  by Atsuo Inoue
  
  
  
  
  
  # About Masayoshi Son
  
  SoftBank’s founder, Masayoshi Son, was born on August 11, 1957 in Saga
  Prefecture, Japan. In 1974, he ventured to the U.S. and entered Serramonte
  High School and in 1980 graduated from the University of California, Berkeley
  with an economics major.
  
  Shortly after returning to Japan, in 1981 he established the current SoftBank
  Corp., first launching a PC software distribution business as the company’s
  Chairman & CEO. Following an initial public offering in 1994, in 1996 SoftBank
  established Yahoo Japan Corporation as a joint venture with U.S.-based Yahoo!
  Inc.
  
  With Son first acting as Yahoo Japan’s President & CEO and later Chairman of
  the Board (to present), Yahoo Japan launched the leading portal site Yahoo!
  JAPAN, the first commercial search site in Japan. Together with Yahoo Japan,
  SoftBank rolled out Yahoo! BB, a low-cost ADSL service that was the fastest
  for the time, marking