ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the economic research in national higher commercial schools and commercial universities in wartime Japan. Nearly 70 years since the end of the war, studies on this topic remain insufficient. In Japan, theoretical studies on economics decreased as the war progressed. However, some economists did apply their original academic methods to the surveys in response to social demand in those days. Others cooperated with the Japanese military administration, regardless of their intention. After the war ended, the schools became the basis for departments of economics in universities, after the reorganization of the Japanese educational system, which began in 1949. As this chapter explains, it is not by chance that economics has developed in Japan since the end of World War II, and this development traces back to studies both before and during the war. Thus, this chapter attempts to reveal this continuity in the history of Japanese economics, both before and after the war.
