Firms and Industrial Association in the Period of the Second World War and the Postwar Economic Recovery

在这个项目中，我们收集了在第二次世界大战期间在经济控制中发挥核心作用并在战后被占领当局关闭的半公共组织的原始文件，以及政府和私营公司的相关文件。我们访问的档案和机构包括日本国家档案馆筑波附属机构、国家防卫研究所、日本机械工业促进会、大分大学和九州大学。然后，我们利用这些文件考察了战时经济的重组和战损经济的恢复。特别是从国家振兴金融公司的文件中明确指出，战时旨在重组中小企业的政策严重损害了为这些公司工作的人，在重组分配制度方面，地方政府和工业协会发挥了重要作用。该项目的结果发表在原明和山崎史郎主编的《战时日本经济重组》一书中。与此同时，为了从比较的角度考虑日本战后的经济复苏，我们与韩国大学举行了一系列国际会议，这些大学包括首尔国立大学、釜山国立大学、江农国立大学和梨花女子大学。在这些会议上提交的论文以卷《比较》的形式进行了报道。战后东亚经济发展研究。为了方便其他研究人员，我们出版了一系列卷，转载了本项目中新发现的原始文献。

In this project, we gathered original documents of the semi-public organizations which had played the central role in the economic control during the Second World War and were closed by the occupation authorities (SCAP) after the War, as well as the related documents of the government and private companies. The archives and institutions where we visited include Tsukuba Annex of the National Archives of Japan, the National Institute for Defense Studies, the Japan Society for Promotion of Machine Industry, Oita University and Kyushu University.Then, using those documents, we investigated the reorganization of the economy during the war and the economic recovery from the war damage. In particular, from the documents of the National Revitalization Finance Corporation, it was made clear that the wartime policy aiming at reorganization of medium and small-sized firms gave serious damages to the people who had worked for those firms, and that in reorganizing the distribution system, the local governments and the industrial associations played a major role.The results of the project were published in a book, Reorganization of the Economy in Wartime Japan edited by Akira Hara and Shiro Yamazaki. At the same time, in order to consider the postwar economic recovery of Japan in comparative perspectives, we held a series of international conferences with Korean universities, namely Seoul National National University, Pusan National University, Kangnung National University and Ewha Womans University. The papers presented at these conferences were reported in a volume, Comparative. Study on the Postwar Economic Development in East Asia. For convenience of other researchers, we published a series of volumes which reprinted the original documents newly found in this project.