園田義明めも。

「先物市場そのものは大昔から存在していたが、組織化された取引所において集中した形で先物取引が行われたのは１７３０年に大阪で開設された堂島米会所が最初のことである。」

米国金融先物市場の父“レオ・メラメドの自伝『エスケープ・トゥ・ザ・フューチャーズ』より


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LEO MELAMED - Home Page
http://www.leomelamed.com/

Preface to the Japanese Translation of ESCAPE TO THE FUTURES
By Leo Melamed
http://www.leomelamed.com/essays/97-escp.htm

In 1940, I was only eight years old when the Trans-Siberian train brought us to Vladivostok, our gateway to freedom --- far too young to appreciate the extraordinary deed of the Japanese official who had made our flight to safety possible. It wasn't until many years later that my father recounted to me the story of Sugihara, the Japanese Counsel General to Lithuania who defied orders from his own foreign ministry in order to save the lives of some 6,000 doomed refugees.

In the beginning, even my father didn't know the full truth of Chiune Sugihara's courage. The details of this Schindler-esque story weren't immediately available to the world at large. But what my father did know was that this uncommonly humane Japanese official recognized the plight of Jews trapped in this Lithuanian corner of the world who were about to be consumed by the insane hatred-flames of the Nazis. Sugihara did the one thing in his power to do: he granted the refugees a lifeline --- a transit visa through Japan.

Indeed, futures markets are another and equally important reason for translating this book into Japanese. It is no secret that I have devoted almost my entire adult life to the understanding and furtherance of futures markets, particularly financial futures. And while futures markets have been in existence from time immemorial, their official beginning on an centralized exchange did not occur until the Dojima Rice Market was organized in Osaka in 1730. Thus Japan has a special and unique tie to my life’s work in the promotion of organized futures exchanges throughout the world.

Leo Melamed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Melamed

Melamed was born in Poland in 1932. The family name at the time was Melamdovich. In 1939, the Japanese consul general to Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara, issued his family a life-saving transit visa, and they made the long trek across Siberia to safe haven in Japan. They crossed the Pacific to the US in spring 1941 and the family settled in Chicago.


在シカゴ日本国総領事館　シカゴごあんない
http://www.chicago.us.emb-japan.go.jp/chicago.html

市内にはシカゴ商品取引所（CBOT）、シカゴ商業取引所（CME）等があり、ここで行われる先物取引は全米及び世界の相場の動向を大きく左右し、時に「シカゴ筋」と称されてきましたが、２００７年７月、CMEがCBOTを買収し、世界最大の先物取引所である「CMEグループ」が誕生しました。ちなみに、「アメリカの金融先物市場の父」といわれるレオ・メラメド氏は１９７０年代にシカゴ商業取引所を舞台に先物取引を育てましたが、同氏は日本人外交官杉原氏の発行したビザのおかげで子供の時にホロコーストから逃れ、米国にたどり着いた人です。


在シカゴ日本国総領事館　杉原千畝を偲ぶ夕べ
http://www.chicago.us.emb-japan.go.jp/cg_sugihara091013.html

メラメド氏による体験談
世界最大の先物取引所CMEグループ（Chicago　Mercantile　Exchange　Group：本社シカゴ）の名誉会長であり、自身も杉原副領事の発給したヴィザで救われたレオ・メラメド氏は、当時の状況や杉原家の思い出を紹介しつつ、当時のユダヤ人を勇敢に救出した杉原氏は、たった一人でも状況を変えられるという信念を体現する人物であるとして杉原氏を称賛しました。


堂島帳合米（江戸期先物）市場分析の金融工学アプローチ
http://sfc-forum.sfc.keio.ac.jp/forumnews/news68/forumnews68-2.html

堂島米先物市場におけるヘッジ行動
幕末：天保五年（1834）より元治元年（1864 年）の分析
http://risk.sfc.keio.ac.jp/dojima/nfa.pdf


金融先物の父“レオ・メラメド”から学ぶ金融先物の世界（画像引用）
http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E9%87%91%E8%9E%8D%E5%85%88%E7%89%A9%E3%81%AE%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E2%80%95%E9%87%91%E8%9E%8D%E5%85%88%E7%89%A9%E3%81%AE%E7%88%B6%E2%80%9C%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A1%E3%83%89%E2%80%9D%E3%81%8B%E3%82%89%E5%AD%A6%E3%81%B6-%E5%8F%AF%E5%85%90-%E6%BB%8B/dp/4788709775/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266592638&sr=1-1