Dissertation Information for Yoshiaki Katada NAME: - Yoshiaki Katada
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- History
SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (1998)
ADVISORS: - Fred G. Notehelfer
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - Mary Yeager - Taimie L. Bryant
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: The political economy of the Japanese Navy: The Navy and the economy in the early twentieth century
Abstract: This study examines the Japanese Navy from 1910 to 1941 in terms of a complex interplay of social, economic and historical factors. A discussion of the political and economic fabric of Japan in this period will demonstrate the Navy's role in the move towards a military economy. My study considers three factors as crucial to Japan's entry into the Pacific War, namely: the role of the Navy in the balance of power within government; the consequences of this for Japan's heavy industrialization; and the conflict between the Army and the Navy regarding the best military strategy for defending Japan's national interests in the run up to World War II.
These three areas constitute the major focus of my thesis and together provide an understanding of the Japanese Navy's historical development in the early twentieth century. I will look first at the strength of civilian control over the Navy and will seek to define the nature of Japan's political leadership as well as the motivation behind many of the government policies at this time. My analysis of the second factor, the Navy's role in Japan's heavy industrialization, focuses specially on the symbiotic relationship between the Navy and Japan's emerging shipbuilding industry, an area which was vital element to Japan's industrialization as a whole. The third factor, that of the Navy's stance on issues of national security from 1910 to 1941, shows how the Navy influenced Japan's military as a whole and examines how the Navy reacted to new developments in international affairs.
On the eve of the Pacific War, the focus of politics in Japan had become the effective control of the economy and society for further military growth. Japanese leaders were no longer concerned with balancing the needs of the populace against the needs of military, or with seeking a coherent value system by which to govern. Even the logistics of political maneuvers between individual clans, a significant characteristic of Japanese government for decades, was put to one side. With the establishment of a military state in the late 1930s, politics was replaced by military control.
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