The Study Of Wartime Control Regime In Japan

The formation of the wartime control regime in Japan had a profound social basis. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan had a policy of continental expansion, but the dualism of National power control and Economic structure in Japan made it difficult to combine human, material and financial resources for the external war; establishing the wartime control regime for the purpose of expansion became an urgent need for the military. Japanese society was in a transition period between World War I and the Manchurian Incident. The corruption of the parties and the economic crisis caused the dissatisfaction with the current party politics and state system and so liberalism declined and conservatism resurrected. National reform thought flourished. The"control group"of Japan's military was used of public discontent, under the guidance of"total war"thought, gradually established a wartime control regime.The Japanese control regime experienced several stages: the quasi-wartime regime, national general mobilization regime and the Political assist regime. The"war supremacy"and"national supremacy"of total war thought played a theoretical foundation role in establishing Japanese wartime control system. The military in order to achieve"national unity"and"One Million Organization,"and deal with the development of total war situation that must establish the wartime control regime and dominated by military. The military dissolved political parties and establish the Political assist committee, including Cabinet ministers and Parliament's councilors,and carry out the assisted election and gradually established political control. At the same time, the military established the planning institution and"citadel government joint conference"and so on to formulate a unified national policy. The Japanese economy militarized in the form of"armies with zaibatsu embrace together",and the economic control regime was established after"important industries govern law"and other laws and regulations were issued. Through the"speech, publication, assembly, association and others temporary ban law"strengthened ideological and cultural control. Japanese were enrolled in a variety of organizations that one person often had a lot of organizational identities, through this enhanced personal control. The wartime control regime was established and used to service aggression.The defeat of Japan marked the end of the Japanese wartime control regime. The Japanese wartime control regime disrupted Japanese social order and brought great harm to Japanese and their social, the modernization process was back. The establishment of the wartime control regime in Japan was not only the result of abduction by militarism, but also was the concentrated outbreak of modernization conflict. This understanding helps us to more fully grasp this historical issue.