We asked Mr. Eiji Katayama, who graduated from the club in 1995 and was attracting attention as a draft candidate at the time (2nd part of a total of 2 / to #1).
Nicknamed “The University of Tokyo’s Bunbunmaru” for his aggressive batting, he played No. 4 on the University of Tokyo baseball team and was also noted as a candidate for the professional baseball draft.Eiji Katayama (Graduated in 1995, Yokohama Suiran). Katayama, who was faced with overwhelming performances such as Atsunori Inaba of the same school who was No. 4 at Hosei University and Yoshinobu Takahashi of Keio University who hit three home runs in the spring league match of the first year, Katayama decided not to become a professional. chose a job.
After graduating from the University of Tokyo, Katayama went to the Industrial Bank of Japan (Industrial Bank of Japan, now Mizuho Bank). At the peak of the bubble economy (1989), the IBJ was a giant financial institution that boasted the second largest market capitalization in the world after NTT. At that time, ordinary banks had a business model in which they earned a profit margin by lending the deposits they had collected widely through their operations. The IBJ, on the other hand, was granted special authority by the government to issue bonds, and the funds procured there were used to make long-term loans to large corporations and other entities for profit. As an elite group reigning at the top of the financial world, the IBJ was attractive not only to ordinary job-hunting students, but also to many students of the University of Tokyo.
“It’s a bit embarrassing, but I first learned of its existence when I heard that the captain of the baseball club two years above me had joined the IBJ. So it was a bank that was not generally known.” (Katayama)
Unlike today, at that time it was common to get information about job hunting through senior students. One year older than him also joined the bank, and by receiving information about the Bank from them, he learned about the bank’s role and business content.
