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The Second Half: Imperial Japan's War Industry, Eighty Years On
Four studies in corporate history. Imperial Japan's munitions firms did not vanish after 1945 — they were broken up, renamed and turned to civilian work, and a number of them now sit back among defence contractors.
Part 1
Dissolution and Revival: The Wartime Industrial Past Behind Japan’s Civilian Brands
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Part 2
The Afterlife of the Zero: Eighty Postwar Years of Japan’s Aviation and Shipbuilding Defence Firms
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Part 3
Iron and People: The Resource Chain and the Labour Chain of Imperial Japan’s War Industry
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Part 4
The Weight of Capacity: A Contemporary Comparison of Chinese and Japanese Manufacturing
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