Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Capitalism and the Transformation of the Corporation -- Discourse on the Separation of Capital and Management -- The role of managers and criticism of profit maximisation -- The ideas of Ueda Teijirō -- Economic Chivalry and Guild Socialism -- The supercorporation -- Mukai Shikamatsu and Kojima Seiichi -- Walther Rathenau and the "Corporation without shareholders" -- Keynes' public corporation -- Werner Sombart: the decline of the capitalistic spirit and the bureaucratisation of management -- German Corporation Theory under National Socialism -- Reform bureaucrats and the separation of capital and management -- Conclusion -- Chapter Two: The Crisis of Capitalism and the Controlled Economy -- Two models in the discussion of the controlled economy -- The Perception of Capitalism -- (1) The view of capitalism behind the Important Industries Control Law -- (2) The controlled economy as a modification of capitalism -- (3) The liberal economy, rationalization and organization -- (4) Towards Corporate Concentration, the Formation of Monopolies, and Economic Organization -- The Influence of the German Discussion about the Transformation of Capitalism -- The New Order: the Supercorporation and the Controlled Economy -- (1) The controlled economy -- (2) The supercorporation and the separation of ownership and management -- (3) The influence of Rathenau's new economic order -- Cartels: The Independent Organization and the Public Interest -- Chapter Three: Early Japanese Analysis of the Nazi Economic System -- Wagatsuma Sakae -- (1) Analysis of Nazi thought -- (2) Analysis of Nazi economic ideas -- (3) Criticism of Nazism and advocacy of a democratic solution -- Kada Tetsuji -- Studies of Nazism -- Studies of Nazi economic thought and its various currents.

Criticism of Nazi racial nationalism: the concept of the "cooperative economic union" -- Chō Moriyoshi and the Nazi controlled economy -- Evaluation and analysis of Nazism -- The dichotomy between the subordination of private to public interest and the promotion of private initiative -- Analysis of the Nazi controlled economy and its significance -- Summary -- Chapter Four: An Economy for Total War: Japan and the Nazi Model -- The National Mobilization Law -- The Japan-Manchuria Financial Economic Research Group and the Soviet and German Economic Models -- Studying the German Model -- (1) Attention moves to Nazi Germany -- (2) Analysing the Four Year Plan of 1936 -- Organization of the economic framework -- The defence economy: Japanese and German theories -- (1) The defence economy as the preliminary stage for total war -- (2) German theory of the defence economy -- Japanese characteristics of the national defence economy -- Chapter Five: The Japanese New Economic Order and Nazi Economic Thought -- The "Outline for the Establishment of a New Economic Order" and Nazism -- 1. Contemporary understanding among Japanese social scientists -- 2. The three principles and the "Outline for the Establishment of a New Economic Order" -- Growing Interest in Nazi Economic Thought -- 1. Presentation of the Nazi System -- 2. Critical Study by the Shōwa Research Association -- The Cabinet Planning Board, Reform Bureaucrats and Nazi policy thought -- The Cabinet Planning Board and its Study of Nazi Germany -- Minobe Yōji's ideas about the war-preparedness economy and the New Economic Order -- Reform bureaucrats and the principles of the public interest and profit -- Restricting dividends and Nazi legislation -- Views about Nazi economic policies within business circles -- The Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry and its plan for structural reform.

The Japan Economic Federation, the Conference of Control Associations of Important Industries and Nazi ideology -- (i) The "Discussion Proposal Regarding the Outline of a Private Sector New Economic Order" and the primacy of the public interest -- (ii) Hoashi Kei and his understanding of Nazi Germany -- The "Discussion Paper" regarding the New Economic Order and the acceptance of Nazi ideas -- (i) The Japan Economic Federation and the German Economic Delegation -- (ii) Exchanges with the German Labour Front -- (iii) Nazism and the "Opinion Paper" regarding the New Economic Order -- Nazi principles and the ideology of Japanism and the Emperor System -- Awareness of Japan's lack of the Nazi-style leadership -- Utilising the traditional spirit and the ideology of the national polity -- Chapter Six: The New Labour System and Nazism -- The Nazi Organization of Labour -- Distinctive Features of the New Labour Order in Japan -- The Nazi Law for the Organization of National Labour -- The New Labour System and the Nazi View of Labour -- Chapter Seven: Nazi Germany and Japan in the Eyes of Contemporary Economists -- Kazahaya Yasoji -- Transplanting Nazi-style policies to Japan and the distinctiveness of Japanese-style capitalism -- "Pre-Bismarckian" elements in Japanese capitalism -- The organisation of industry under state control in Germany and Japan -- Hattori Eitarō -- The ideological aspects of Nazi functional social policy -- The possibilities of the Nazi-type social state and the backwardness of the Japanese labour system -- Naniwada Haruo -- Criticism of the Nazi view of labour -- The originality of the Japanese communal and national structure -- Nazi Similarities with the Japanese Idea of National Distinctiveness -- References -- Contemporary -- Secondary -- Index of Names.