鉄道における日本側自主権の確立過程III : オリエンタル銀行倒産まで

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At the beginning, Japanese Railways was constructed and managed by hired British engineers, secretaries and workers. Especially the Oriental Bank Corporation (hereinafter OBC) played very important roles such as the recruiting of technocrats, etc. and the purchasing of materials. After the chief manager of OBC died, Japan delegated the purchasing of the railway materials to the Malcom Brunkers Co. As OBC had suffered from poor business performance since the end of the 1870s, the Japanese Government (hereinafter JG) intended to clear off its relationship with OBC in spite of the various contributions to him. The loss of JG was not so large owing to the current reports of Japanese Consul in London. Thus JG had acquired the initiative on the Railways step by step. On the other hand I found some interesting documents at the National Archives. They were the list of the depositors at Yokohama branch of OBC. Investigating the list of the hired foreigners, I show their savings deposit rates divided by salary or wage. These rates tell us their magnitudes of losses resulting from the bankruptcy of OBC. I suppose they had been employed longer term than expected in order to minimise their damages, though JG tried to substitute the foreigners to Japanese and had not enough foreign currency reserves at those days.
大阪産業大学の論文
2005-06-30