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日　　時：2026年6月12日（金）17：00～18：30
会　　場：大阪大学豊中キャンパス 全学教育推進機構 実験棟1F サイエンス・コモンズ DAICEL Studio（ハイブリッド開催）
開催言語：英語（討論は日英両語）

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【講演】
Harald Fuess 教授（Heidelberg University, The Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies）

【ディスカッサント】
Amin GHADIMI（大阪大学大学院人文学研究科 准教授）

【趣旨】
The question posed by this lecture, which examines the relationship between the Japanese government, Western diplomats and foreign businesses, is why the first yen banknotes valid until 1899 were printed in Frankfurt am Main during the early Meiji period. In the financial crisis following the Meiji Restoration, many governmental and non-governmental institutions printed paper money for Japan, some of it as imitations of the new government’s first currency, which was still based on the traditional ryō. As a means of combating widespread counterfeiting and raising funds, government officials sought a “counterfeit-proof” technical solution that would also be accepted by Western business representatives. Europe, the United States, and Hong Kong subsequently served as sources of money production until the oversight over money was finally centralized and nationalized with the establishment of the Bank of Japan. However, the technology and iconography first used by Dondorf & Naumann in the 1870s developed a life of its own in Japan and served as a colonial and military currency in Taiwan, Korea, Tsingtao, Siberia and Manchuria as a cultural and economic instrument of power for Japanese imperialism until the late 1930s.