Yasushi Mieno (三重野 康, Mieno Yasushi, March 17, 1924 – April 15, 2012) was a Japanese businessman, central banker, the 26th Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and a Director of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).^[1][2]

Mieno was born in Ōita.^[3]

From April 1975 through February 1978, Mieno was head of the BOJ banking department.^[4]

Mieno was BOJ Governor from December 17, 1989, to December 16, 1994,^[5] having previously served as Deputy Governor from 1984 to 1989.^[4] Starting a week after his appointment, from late December 1989 until August 1990, BOJ heavily increased interest rates. Soon the Japanese asset price bubble of the 1980s collapsed.^[6]

In 1994, he was an elected member of the BIS Board of Directors.^[1]

On April 15, 2012, Mieno died from heart failure in a Tokyo hospital.^[2]

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Yasushi Mieno, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 7 works in 10 publications in 2 languages and 50+ library holdings.^[7]

• World Economy in the 1990s: a Japanese Central Banker's View (1990)
• Current Monetary and Economic Conditions in Japan (1993)
• 日本経済と中央銀行―前日銀総裁講演録 (1995)
• 利を見て義を思う: 三重野康の金融政策講義 (2000)

• Werner, Richard A. (2003). Princes of the Yen: Japan's Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-7656-1048-5; OCLC 471605161

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