Japan's War Economy / Edition 1

by Erich Pauer

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415154727
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/03/1998
Series:	Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia , #21
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction Erich Pauer 1. The Japanese war economy as a 'planned economy' Nakamura Takafusa, University of Tokyo, Japan 2. The ideological background of the Japanese war economy: visions of the 'reformist bureaucrats' Ortrude Kerde, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany 3. Japan's technical mobilization in the second world war Erich Pauer 4. Women and the war economy in Japan Regine Mathias, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany 5. A new order for Japanese society: planned economy, neighbourhood associations and food distribution in Japanese cities in the second world war Erich Pauer 6. Drawbacks to controls on food distribution: food shortages, the black market and economic crime Anke Scherer, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany 7. National policy companies and their role in Japan's wartime economy Silke Susann Otto, University of Marburg, Germany 8. Wartime financial reforms and the transformation of the Japanese financial system Okazaki Tetsuji, University of Tokyo, Japan 9. The transformation of the Japanese economy Ito Osamu, Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan A short bibliographical note Erich Pauer Contributors

Editorial Reviews

'In making these findings available to a non-Japanese audience Pauer and his colleagues have provided a useful guide to a considerable body of otherwise barely accessible literature on the role of the war in Japan's long-term development.' - Kenneth D. Brown, The Economic History Review

From the Publisher

Articles based on papers given at the Eleventh International Economic History Congress, held in Milan in September 1994, refute the assumption commonly held in the West that Japan's postwar development started from scratch after surrender in August 1945. They look closely into wartime and prewar economic structures to provide a better understanding of Japan's postwar recovery and present-day economic system. Subjects include the Japanese war economy as a planned economy, women and the war economy in Japan, and wartime financial reforms and the transformation of the Japanese financial system. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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