岸曉氏が死去　元東京三菱銀頭取、８９歳

　岸　曉氏（きし・さとる＝元東京三菱銀行〈現三菱ＵＦＪ銀行〉頭取）１５日午後４時８分、腎不全のため東京都内の自宅で死去、８９歳。群馬県出身。葬儀は近親者で済ませた。喪主は妻公子（きみこ）さん。後日、銀行主催のお別れの会を開く。
　東大経卒。１９５３年旧三菱銀行入行、専務、副頭取を経て、９８年１月に東京三菱銀の第２代頭取に就いた。金融安定化のため政府が９８年３月に実施した銀行への公的資金注入では、いち早く申請を決断。当時、最も経営が健全とみられていた東京三菱銀の公的資金活用は、大手銀行に一斉申請を促す呼び水となった。　
　一方、全国銀行協会連合会（現全国銀行協会）会長時代に、大手銀各行による大蔵省（現財務省・金融庁）の官僚への過剰接待が発覚し、対応に苦慮した。（2019/11/21-17:35）

Satoru Kishi, former president of Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, a predecessor of MUFG Bank, one of Japan's top three banks, died of kidney failure at his home in Tokyo last Friday. He was 89.
   A native of Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, Kishi began working at former Mitsubishi Bank in 1953 after graduating from the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Economics. After serving as senior managing director and vice president of the bank, Kishi became the second president of Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi in January 1998.
   Under his leadership, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, which was born through the merger of Mitsubishi Bank and Bank of Tokyo in 1996, decided to apply for public funds ahead of peers under the March 1998 government program aimed at stabilizing Japan's financial system, which had been reeling under a crisis.
   The decision by Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, seen as the most financially sound bank in the country at that time, prompted other major banks to seek public funds as well.
   In 1998, Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan and Nippon Credit Bank, both major banks, went bust under the weight of nonperforming loans, following the collapses in the preceding year of Sanyo Securities Co., Hokkaido Takushoku Bank and Yamaichi Securities Co., one of the country's Big Four brokers at the time.