Introduction

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