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Book Review: Aspects of Japan's Labor Problems

Book Review: Aspects of Japan's Labor Problems

Aspects of Japan's Labor Problems.

Aspects of Japan's Labor Problems.

Book Review: Aspects of Japan's Labor Problems

Book Review: Aspects of Japan's Labor Problems

Review: Aspects of Japan's Labor Problems, by Miriam S. Farley and William T. Moran

Book Review| August 01 1951 Review: Aspects of Japan's Labor Problems, by Miriam S. Farley and William T. Moran Aspects of Japan's Labor ProblemsMiriam S. FarleyWilliam T. Moran Jerome B. Cohen Jerome B. Cohen Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1951) 20 (3): 302–304. https://doi.org/10.2307/3635726 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jerome B. Cohen; Review: Aspects of Japan's Labor Problems, by Miriam S. Farley and William T. Moran. Pacific Historical Review 1 August 1951; 20 (3): 302–304. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3635726 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1951 The Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Aspects of Japan's Labor Problems.

Aspects of Japan's Labor Problems.

Aspects of Japan's Labor Problems

Aspects of Japan's Labor Problems

Problems of War Production Control in Japan

S INCE PEARL HARBOR the American people have had considerable experience of the difficulties involved in placing a complex industrial economy on a modern war footing and in seeing that this war economy is properly administered. There is some degree of satisfaction in knowing that Japan has been experiencing similar difficulties, and in very acute form. The fact that Americans had credited Japan with a thoroughly streamlined economic organization, along with the other elements of a well-oiled war machine, tends to enhance this satisfaction. There is good reason to assert that the United States War Production Board, as an instrument of production control which combines the essential features of flexibility and centralized authority, has been, despite all its troubles, considerably more effective than Japan's unwieldy apparatus, which General Tojo inherited at the outbreak of war and which he has been laboriously remodeling against many political obstacles for the past twelve months. Certain aspects of Japan's economic preparations for war were managed with great efficiency. In the period which preceded Pearl Harbor, the procurement of strategic raw materials and vital machine tools which Japan lacked was planned with extreme care and thoroughly implemented. There is clear evidence that the Japanese military authorities manipulated this program from behind the scenes. They were also instrumental in stimulating an unusually rapid development of the automotive and airplane industries in Japan after 1938. Arguing from these facts, Westerners have been inclined to credit the Japanese military with a greater degree of control over the productive system in Japan than they actually possessed. In this respect, the analogy often drawn between Japan and Nazi Germany is misleading, true as it may be in other respects. The Nazis won virtually full control over the German state apparatus in 1933-34. This political monopoly carried with it practically unlimited authority over the German economic system, which was comprehensively reorganized for war over a six-year period. Nothing like so sweeping and

Some Aspects of Japan

Meeting of the Society, 5 May 194I OF the wide range of subjects that the title of this paper might admit I have chosen two special periods of Japan's foreign relations, with some account of her history and its uneasy geographical setting. For Geography does influence History. But the former does not control the latter, as Haushofer, with his quasi-scientific theory of Geopolitik, would have us believe. It is an interesting coincidence that he should have begun to develop his doctrine when in Japan, and in association with military expansionists there. Nevertheless, although he has rendered the association between history and geography suspect, this need not prevent us from considering some of the geographical factors that have gone to affect Japan's history. Japan, like Great Britain, is a maritime country, insular, narrow, with abundant seaboard, of the type that begets sailors; she, too, is placed on the fringe of a great continent, in whose affairs she is perforce closely involved. She stands with her back to the fluid wall of the Pacific Ocean, and this has made her ever watchful of an eastward movement by any Power that prevails in Northern Asia.