Reorganization and Crisis of the Capitalism in Post-War Japan

Nihei Satoshi

doi:10.20633/tochiseido.11.1_1

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日本資本主義の戦後再編と危機の進行 : 格差=構造的過剰のメカニズムを中心として
ニホンシホンシュギノセンゴサイヘントキキノシンコウカクサコウゾウテキカジョウノメカニズムオチュウシントシテ

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After the breakdown of the pre-war capitalist structure in Japan by the defeat, the post-war reorganization has been drived forward through two stages, in the first of which (1950〜55) the industry producing means of consumption and agriculture promoted the social reproduction, in the second (1955〜61) the formation of the industry producing means of production with modern equipment leaded the hasty expansion of the social reproduction. This high accumulation of capital especially in heavy and chemical industries, building up these as potentially military industries required the U. S. from a viewpoint of the cold-war strategy, was brought about on the basis of the severe disparity in labor productivity between giant enterprises of these industries on the one hand and light industry, medium and small enterprises on the other, and the severer disparity between manufacturing industry and agriculture. Because of these contradictions fell the Japanese capitalism into a structural overproduction since 1960-61. Under the structural depression, the crisis of medium and small enterprises, the crisis of the small-scale agriculture and the crisis of the public finance intensify themselves, prices of consumers' goods rise, conditions of the working class are agg-ravated, and these factors obstruct the formation of a well-balanced structure of the social reproduction adapted to heavy and chemical industries on the high level as axis. Furthermore, the world-wide dollar-military system of the U. S. upon which the post-war Japanese capitalism depends profoundly is getting more unstable by the defeat of the U. S. in Vietnam and the deepening of the dollar-crisis.

Journal

The Journal of Agrarian History

The Journal of Agrarian History 11 (1), 1-23, 1968

The Agrarian History Society (Renamed as The Political Economy and Economic History Society)