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Former head office building in Yokohama, designed by architect Tsumaki Yorinaka and completed in 1904;[1] since 1967 seat of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History

Yokohama Specie Bank (横浜正金銀行, Yokohama Shōkin Ginkō) was a Japanese bank, founded in Yokohama, Japan in 1880. In 1946, it was reorganized and rebranded as the Bank of Tokyo, later part of MUFG Bank.

The Yokohama Specie Bank played a significant role in Japanese overseas trade and colonial ventures, not least in Manchuria and elsewhere in China.[2]

  1. ^ "Yokohama Specie Bank, Yokohama, c. 1920". Old Tokyo.
  2. ^ The Yokohama Specie Bank Building – built in 1924 (No. 24, The Bund) Archived 12 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine

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