| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study examined how Japan's prewar zaikai (business and financial elite) were reorganized and reestablished after World War II. First, after identifying and analyzing cabinet members with a zaikai background from the Meiji period onwards, I found that the practice of allocating cabinet posts to the zaikai, especially the core members who were not party politicians (e.g., Ikeda Seihin), continued from 1932 to 1960.
Subsequently, the relationship between the zaikai and politics changed considerably, as first labor-intensive business and then lobbyist party politicians replaced them. In terms of their involvement with pan-Asianism and US relations, I further diachronically analyzed the differences between three typical zaikai. Examining comprehensive wide-area development and private economic routes in Asia, I acquired a clearer picture of the post-war zaikai and its relationship to Asia-Pacific.
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