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Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State
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Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State
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Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State
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Mimura shifts our attention away from reactionary young officers to state planners—reform bureaucrats, total war officers, new zaibatsu leaders, economists, political scientists, engineers, and labor party leaders. She shows how empire building and war mobilization raised the stature and influence of these middle-class professionals by calling forth new government planning agencies, research bureaus, and think tanks to draft Five Year industrial plans, rationalize industry, mobilize the masses, streamline the bureaucracy, and manage big business. Deftly examining the political battles and compromises of Japanese technocrats in their bid for political power and Asian hegemony,
offers a new perspective on Japanese fascism by revealing its modern roots in the close interaction of technology and right-wing ideology.