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

Japan's economic growth in the wake of the Second World War was extraordinarily rapid. The August 1945 surrender is often taken as starting point for studies of this growth, but it is now accepted that a continous line of economic development may be traced from the pre- to post-war periods. This book explores the innovations of the war-time era, identifying this period as the most influential for the country's post-war economic structure. The contributors discuss important aspects of the Japanese war-time 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; and financial reforms

This collection of fourteen key papers deriving from CEEJA's second international conference exploring the Japanese history of technology, concentrates on the routes to acquiring and transmitting technical knowledge in Japan's modern era - from the very earliest endeavours in establishing opportunities for acquiring a technical education to the translation of foreign textbooks and manuals. Published in two volumes and thematically structured in three Parts, this wide-ranging work both complements and expands on the subject-matter contained in the first volume entitled Technical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan (2020).

Drawing on the papers presented at CEEJA's* first international conference addressing the long-neglected field relating to the generation, dissemination and application of technical knowledge in Japan from the Edo to the Meiji periods, this volume provides a valuable selection of new research on the subject, from Hashimoto Takehiko's detailed examination of Tanaka Hisashige's 'Myriad Year Clock', Regine Mathias's paper on mining and smelting, and Erich Pauer's overview of Japanese technical books in the pre-modern era, to Suzuki Jun's detailed account of boiler-making in late nineteenth-century Japan. * Centre Europeen d'Etudes Japonaises d'Alsace, 2017