Soeda Juichi

Soeda Juichi (添田 壽一, September 15, 1864 – July 4, 1929), also referred to as Juichi Soyeda, was a Japanese lawyer,[1] senior civil servant and academic economist.

In 1913 he was delegated by the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce in Japan to study the California Alien Land Law of 1913.

That same year he was appointed councilor in the Japanese Treasury Department, and then successively private secretary, secretary, and Director of Superintendence Bureau, in the same department; became its Vice-Minister in 1898; shortly afterwards he resigned his post and became lecturer of economics and public finance at Tokyo Imperial University and several other institutions; in 1899, was appointed president of the Bank of Formosa; then chairman of Japan Credit Mobilier Commission, and in 1902, was made president of the newly established Japan Credit Mobilier.

He took an active part in Japanese monetary reform work, including the adoption of the gold standard in 1897.

In 1913, he visited the United States as representative of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce, in connection with the California Alien Land Law of 1913.