Economists' social activities in wartime and occupied Japan: The analysis of "Mitsutaro Araki Papers"

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K03389
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic doctrine/Economic thought
• Research Institution: Setsunan University
• Principal Investigator: Makino Kuniaki 摂南大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (20582472)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 小堀 聡 名古屋大学, 経済学研究科, 准教授 (90456583) ; 恒木 健太郎 専修大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (30456769) ; 中井 大介 近畿大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (70454634)
• Research Collaborator: Fujii Yusuke ; Shirai Satoshi
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 荒木光太郎 / 荒木光太郎文書 / 大蔵省戦時経済特別調査室 / 世界経済調査会 / 国家資力研究所 / 国民所得 / 石橋湛山 / 国際交流

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The "Mitsutaro Araki Papers" were formerly in the possession of Mitsutaro Araki, an economist who served as professor in the economic department of the Tokyo Imperial University, and which are now stored at Nagoya University. We sorted and digitalized the papers and released them to the public.
We used these papers in our studies on (1) the Institute of World Economy, which was a representative think tank in wartime Japan, (2) the Wartime Economy Special Research Office in the Ministry of Finance, and Tanzan Ishibashi's attempt to establish postwar international order after Japan's defeat at the end of the Pacific War, (3) national income research at the National Economic Resource Laboratory in the Ministry of Finance and the National Economic Resource Institute, and (4) Japanese-German cultural exchanges during the Nazi period. We published many results of these studies as papers or books.

Free Research Field

経済思想史