On the Japanese Economic Control of the South-East Asia During the 15 Years War Period

自1990年以来。我们的主要工作是查找和收集与我们的研究有关的文件，并对这些文件进行调查。研究结果总结如下：1。文件信息；在文献保存的过程中，在外交档案室、国防学院军事档案馆、美国国会图书馆等政府机构中，有很多文献是不对外开放的。这些仍在分类中或等待分类。同样，许多有关公司活动的文件仍未向公众公开。这些文件中的大部分要向公众公开还需要很长时间，但我们打算尽早得到它们。外国的国家档案馆保存了许多文件。了。例如，马来西亚国家档案馆保存了日本军队占领英属马来西亚时发布的日本文件，泰国国家档案馆保存了日本军官与泰国官僚之间的谈判备忘录。获得的资料和调查结果；我们得到了很多文件，其中大部分是外交、金融和军事方面的。我们从京都大学东南亚研究所和其他图书馆收集了许多出版资料。部分调查结果如下：(1) 20世纪30年代末，日本开始向东南亚扩张。两家新成立的特殊公司在这个地区的投资上相互竞争。到20世纪30年代中期，很少有日本公司进入法属印度支那，但有一家特殊的公司突破了这一道路，大量投资采矿和其他行业。1940年，日本政府策划了以军事力量为后盾的东南亚经济控制政策。1941年，日本同意与法属印度支那进行经济“合作”。与政府和荷属东印度群岛企业的谈判是由与该国经济界关系密切的古川电工株式会社理事上岛祯和产业大臣小林一雄负责的。上岛成功地扮演了自己的角色，但日本与纳粹德国的联盟关闭了经济合作的大门。(3)日本企业在日本占领下的东南亚国家竞相获得有利可图的特许经营权，并经常拖垮日本经济管制机构。但是。在战争中，他们并不总是有所获。三井贸易公司的东南亚分公司在战争中损失惨重。(4)即使在法属印度支那也发行了军事货币，尽管是暂时的，直到1945年3月日本才由其军队统治。(5)在荷属东印度，日本发行了军事货币，1943年4月以后，发行了“南保Kaihatsu Kinko”的照会，但在财政部中央办公室和该地区的分支机构之间存在争议。少

Since 1990. We have been engaged mainly in searching for and collecting the documents concerning our reseach, and investigating those documents. The summary of the research results is as follows ;1. The Informations of the Documents ; As our search for the reservation of documents, there are many documents not-opened to the public in the governmental institutions, such as Diplomatic Record Office, Library of the National Defense College Military Archives, Library of Congress and so on. These are still under or waiting for classifying. Similarly, many documents concerning the activities of companies still have not been opend to the public. It will be long for most of these documents to be opened to the public, but we intend to get them as early as we can. National archives of foreign countries reserve many documents. too. For instance, National Archives of Malaysia reserves Japanese documents issued by Japanese Military occupying British Malaysia, and National Archives of Thailand keeps … More the memorandum of negotiations between Japanese officers and Thai bureaucrats.2. Obtained Documents and the Results from Investigation ; We have got many documents, most of them are diplomatic, financial and military. We collected many published materials from Institute of Southeast Asian Studies of Kyoto University and other libraries. Some of the results of investigation are as follows ;(1) In late 1930s, Japan activated lier expantion toward the south-east Asia. Two special companies were newly organized and they competed with each other in investing to the area. Few Japanese companies had enterd to FrenchIndochina by mid-1930s, but one of the special companies broke through the way and massively invested to mining and other industries. (2) ln 1940, Japanese government planed the economic control policy of the South-east Asia backed-up with its military power. In 1941, Japan agreed the economic "co-operation" with French-Indochina. The negotitation with the government and the companies of Dutch-East Indies was carryed out by Seizah Ueshima, a director of Furukawa Electric Industry Co., who had close connection with the business group of the country, and Ichizoh Kobayashi, Minister of Commerce and Industry. Ueshima had been playing his role successfully, but Japanese alliance with Nazi-Germany shut the door to the economic co-operation. (3) Japanese companies competed with each other to get the profitable concessions in the South-east Asian countries under the Japanese occupation, and they oftenly draged the Japanese economic control agencies. But. under the war, they did not always gained. The South-east Asian branches of Mitsui Trading Company was heavily lost during the war. (4) Military money was issued, although temporarily, even in French-Indochina where Japan had not governed by her military until March 1945. (5) In Dutch-East Indies, Japan issued military money and, after April 1943, note of "Nan-poh Kaihatsu Kinko", but there were controversies between the central office of Ministry of Finance and the branches in the area. Less