• Introduction Erich Pauer 1. The Japanese war economy as a 'planned economy' Nakamura Takafusa, University of Tokyo, Japan 2. The ideological background of the Japanese war economy: visions of the 'reformist bureaucrats' Ortrude Kerde, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany 3. Japan's technical mobilization in the second world war Erich Pauer 4. Women and the war economy in Japan Regine Mathias, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany 5. A new order for Japanese society: planned economy, neighbourhood associations and food distribution in Japanese cities in the second world war Erich Pauer 6. Drawbacks to controls on food distribution: food shortages, the black market and economic crime Anke Scherer, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany 7. National policy companies and their role in Japan's wartime economy Silke Susann Otto, University of Marburg, Germany 8. Wartime financial reforms and the transformation of the Japanese financial system Okazaki Tetsuji, University of Tokyo, Japan 9. The transformation of the Japanese economy Ito Osamu, Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan A short bibliographical note Erich Pauer Contributors

'In making these findings available to a non-Japanese audience Pauer and his colleagues have provided a useful guide to a considerable body of otherwise barely accessible literature on the role of the war in Japan's long-term development.' - Kenneth D. Brown, The Economic History Review