- CEO
- Yasushi Kawakami
- Full Time Employees
- 1,802
- Sector
- Finance
- Industry
- Regional banks
- Address
- 1-11-1 Kumoji Naha ON Japan 900-0015
- IPO Date
- Oct 11, 1983
- Business
- Bank of The Ryukyus, Limited Bank of The Ryukyus, Limited is a Japan-based regional bank that provides comprehensive financial services to individual and corporate customers primarily in Okinawa Prefecture. The bank offers deposit products including savings, time, fixed-term, and property deposits; diverse loan products such as housing, apartment, free, car, education, card, and corporate loans as well as reverse mortgages; insurance products encompassing individual, annuity, whole life, medical, long-term, term life, fire, pet, and cancer insurance; investment trusts and bonds; foreign currency deposits and exchange; debit cards; ATM services; online banking; safe deposit boxes; and remittance services; it also engages in security brokerage, corporate consulting on business succession, mergers and acquisitions, privacy policy, and organizational structure, alongside cash scrutiny, industry research, leasing through Ryukyu Leasing Co., Ltd., credit card operations via Okinawa Credit Service Co., Ltd., credit guarantee, and IT businesses. Founded in 1948 as a precursor organization under U.S. military government ordinance and reorganized as a joint-stock corporation in 1972, the bank is headquartered in Naha, Okinawa, Japan, and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market. Recent developments include a comprehensive collaboration agreement signed in July 2025 with the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology to promote industry-academia ties, startup creation, research commercialization, financing support, and economic revitalization in Okinawa; membership in the TSUBASA Alliance since April 2020 led by The Chiba Bank, Ltd.; the Okinawa Economic Revitalization Partnership with The Bank of Okinawa, Ltd. since January 2021; completion of the acquisition of RYUCOM Co., Ltd. in December 2022; and Ryukyu Leasing Co., Ltd. becoming a wholly owned subsidiary in July 2017 with Okinawa Credit Service Co., Ltd. as a consolidated subsidiary since April 2015.