With the rapid development of Sino-Japanese trade in the 1950s, the ROC government gave permission to the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Ltd. to open the first foreign bank branch office in Taipei in 1959.
政府遷台後，有鑑於中日雙方貿易往來日漸密切，便於民國四十八年准許日本第一勸業銀行在台北設立分行。