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Japan's New Order and Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: Planning for Empire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Janis Mimura
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This essay examines the ideology and politics of Japanese technocrats during the Pacific War. Focusing on Kishi Nobusuke and his faction of reform bureaucrats, it analyzes how these technocrats viewed the war as an unprecedented planning opportunity to realize their vision of Japan's New Order and Asian empire.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 9 , Issue 49 , December 2011 , e3
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References

Notes

1 Thorstein Veblen, “The Opportunity of Japan,” Essays in Our Changing Order (New York: Viking Press, 1952).

2 Hara Akira, “Japan: Guns Before Rice,” in Mark Harrison, ed., The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

3 Akinaga Tsukizō, “Idai naru kokuryoku no saikentō,” Jitsugyō no sekai (October 1941), 21.

4 Kishi Nobusuke and Noyori Hideichi, “Senjika no keizai sesakutaidan, Part 1,” Jitsugyō no sekai (August 1942), 53.

5 Kikakuin kenkyūkaisha, Tōseikai no honshitsu to kinō (Tokyo: Dōmei tsūshinsha, 1943), 28-33.

6 Kishi Nobusuke, Akinaga Tsukizō, Kogane Yoshiteru, Nakano Yūri, and Nakanishi Torao, “Sangyō shintaisei no shinro,” Kagakushugi kōgyō (April 1941), 102.

7 Ibid., 104-105.

8 Nagata Kiyoshi, Nakayama Ichirō, Hatano Kanae, Mōri Hideoto, “Sensō zaisei o tsuku,” Kaizō (October 1941), 214-215.

9 Matsumae Shigeyoshi, “Kōdō kokubō kokka,” Kōgyō kumiai (October 1941), 15.

10 Ibid., 13-14.

11 Shiina, Etsusaburō, “Nanpo shinshutsu no kamae,” Jitsugyō no Nihon (March 1942), 20, 23.

12 Kawahara, Hiroshi, Shōwa seiji shisō kenkyū (Tokyo: Waseda daigaku shuppansha, 1979), 303-305.

13 Kamakura Ichirō (penname of Mōri Hideoto), “Nichi-Doku-I dōmei to kongo no Nihon: Taiheiyō kūkan no seikaku kakumei,” Chūō kōron (November 1940), 35._

14 Mōri Hideoto, “Dai Tōa sensō to Ei-Bei sensō keizai ryoku,” Kokusaku hōsō (January 23, 1942), 14.

15 Kikakuin kenkyūkai, Kokubō koka no kōryō (Tokyo: Shinkigensha, 1941).

16 Yokota Shūhei, Kokudo keikaku no gijutsu (Tokyo: Shōkōgyōseisha, 1944), 41-44.

17 Ishikawa Hideaki, Nihon kokudo keikaku ron (Tokyo: Hachigensha, 1941), see Chapter 1.