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Informationen zum Autor Yoshiro Miwa is a Professor of Economics at Osaka Gakuin University, and Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, where he obtained his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. He writes on a wide variety of areas. Much of his work has been in industrial organization and his current research concerns the effect of government involvement on economic activity in the 1930s and 1940s. Professor Miwa's books include Firms and Industrial Organization in Japan (1996), State Competence and Economic Growth in Japan (2004), and The Fable of the Keiretsu (2006), the latter co-authored by J. Mark Ramseyser. Klappentext Miwa analyzes how the Japanese government prepared itself for the Second World War and the war with China preceding it. Zusammenfassung Yoshiro Miwa analyzes the extent to which the Japanese government prepared itself for the Second World War and the war with China that preceded it. He finds the government – despite its reputation for industrial planning – was ill-prepared and draws sophisticated lessons about the ability of governments to plan their economies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. The Reality of Systematic War Preparations, War Mobilization, and Economic Control: 1. War planning and mobilization during the first-half of the war with China; 2. Operation plan, war plan, and basic national defense policy; Part II. Materials-Mobilization Plans, Production-Capacity-Expansion Plans, and Economic Control: 3. Economic planning and control in wartime Japan: general discussion; 4. Materials-mobilization plans (MMPlans); 5. Production-capacity-expansion plans and policies; 6. PCE Policies in Manchukuo (Manchuria); Part III. The Navy Air Force: Study of a Central Player in the War on the Japanese Side: 7. Preparations; 8. The navy air force during the war with China; 9. The navy air force during the Pacific war; Conclusion.
