ABSTRACT

This book explores the substantial and dynamic innovations of the wartime era, identifying this period as the most influential for Japan's post-war economic structure. Erich Pauer and a team of leading Japanese and German scholars discuss important aspects of the Japanese wartime economy, including:
* ideological background
* the Japanese 'planned economy'
* technical mobilization
* women and the war economy
* socio-economic change
* food shortages, the black market and economic crime
* national policy companies
* financial reforms

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|16 pages

The Ideological Background of the Japanese War Economy

Visions of the ‘reformist bureaucrats’

chapter 5|21 pages

A New Order for Japanese Society

Planned economy, neighbourhood associations and food distribution in Japanese cities in the Second World War

chapter 6|18 pages

Drawbacks to Controls on Food Distribution

Food shortages, the black market and economic crime

chapter |12 pages

A Short Bibliographical Note

On studies concerning Japan's war economy