a study about the postwar economic recovery system

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K03783
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic history
• Research Institution: Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Principal Investigator: Yamazaki Shiro 首都大学東京, 経営学研究科, 客員教授 (10202376)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: 配給統制 / カーバイド / 物資需給計画 / 臨時物資需給調整法 / 戦後経済復興 / 経済安定本部 / 商工省 / 輸送統制

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research is a basic research on the economic recovery of Japan after World War II and clarified the following points.　(1) For economic recovery, a control system similar to the war mobilization system was basically adopted, but this system collided with the GHQ antitrust policy, and it took a long time to develop the system.　(2) Although trade between Asia was indispensable in the supply and demand plan for goods, it clashed with the US reconstruction plan for Asia.
(3) Japan's reconstruction plan was upset by the US postwar Asian strategy and the fluidization of Asian political conditions.　(4) The wartime distribution control organization was functioning effectively even during the reconstruction plan, but it was dismantled because it was a monopoly organization.　(5) Due to the above factors, Japan's postwar reconstruction was unnecessarily prolonged.

Free Research Field

現代日本経済史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

この研究は、日本における経済介入方式が戦時経済総動員から高度成長システムに転換過程を解明した。その転換に当たっては米国占領政策の影響が大きいが、円滑な復興という観点から見ると、戦後改革政策には経済システムの「戦後改悪」も見られた。その占領政策も国際社会の対立やアジア政治状況によって大きく変転を遂げるなど、国際的規定性が大きいことを明らかにした。