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List of figures vii List of tables viii List of contributors x Preface Xill' Acknowledgements xv Introduction 1 ERICH PAUER 1 The Japanese war economy as a 'planned economy' 9 NAKAMURA TAKAFUSA 2 The ideological background of the Japanese war 23 economy: visions of the 'reformist bureaucrats' ORTRUD KERDE 3 Japan's technical mobilization in the Second World War 39 ERICH PAUER 4 Women and the war economy in Japan 65 REGINE MATHIAS 5 A New Order for Japanese society: planned economy, 85 neighbourhood associations and food distribution in Japanese cities in the Second World War ERICH PAUER 6 Drawbacks to controls on food distribution: food 106 shortages, the black market and economic crime ANKE SCHERER 7 National Policy Companies and their role in Japan's 124 wartime economy SILKE-SUSANN OTTO 8 Wartime financial reforms and the transformation 144 of the Japanese financial system OKAZAKI TETSUJI 9 The transformation of the Japanese economy 171 ITO OSAMU A short bibliographical note on studies concerning Japan's war economy 188 ERICH PAUER Index 200