Chugoku Bank Tokyo Branch
ConfidenceLikelyUpdated2026-07-30Review by2026-11-21Sources3Machine-translatedOriginal (JA)
Wiki route
This entry sits under foreign-financial-institutions INDEX. Read it against Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Tokyo Branch for peer / contrast context and banking index for the broader system / regulatory boundary.
##TL;DR
Chugoku Bank Tokyo Branch is a bank branch in Japan of Mainland China / Bank of China listed on the Financial Services Agency’s list of foreign bank branches. It is a separate entity from Japan’s bank of china, and is treated as the main branch for deposits, loans, trade settlements, fund settlements, and foreign exchange transactions between Japan and Japan.
1. License / branch boundary
The following table is scoped to public primary sources (fsa.go.jp, bankofchina.com). It restates licence / structure / product boundaries from those materials and does not invent market share, ranking, or unstated numerical claims. ↗
| Item | Notes |
|---|---|
| FSA listed name | Bank of China |
| Legal / branch name | Bank of China Tokyo Branch |
| License route | Banking Act foreign bank branch; FSA bank license list |
| Home jurisdiction | Mainland China |
| Parent / group | Bank of China |
| Wiki roles | China-Japan large-bank branch anchor; not chugoku-bank |
2. Operating model
Bank of China’s Japan page states that the Tokyo representative office began in 1980 and the Tokyo branch opened in 1986. It describes services including deposits, loans, foreign exchange, trade settlement, fund settlement, and other banking services, and lists additional Japan branches such as Osaka, Yokohama, Nagoya, and Tokyo Otemachi.
This is one of the most important mainland China bank branches in Japan because of its scale, multi-branch footprint, and renminbi / Japan-China transaction role.
3. Why this page matters
- Resolves the name collision between Chinese Bank of China and Japanese chugoku-bank.
- Adds a core mainland China P1 branch to the foreign-bank map.
- Provides peer context for icbc-japan, china-construction-bank-japan, and agricultural-bank-of-china-japan.
Related
- chugoku-bank
- icbc-japan
- china-construction-bank-japan
- agricultural-bank-of-china-japan
- foreign-bank-japan-retreat
Sources
- FSA: bank license list, foreign bank branches, as of 2026-05-13.
- Bank of China Japan: Tokyo branch profile.
- Bank of China Japan: official Japan site.
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