- 著者
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白石 昌也
- 出版者
- 東南アジア学会/山川出版社
- 雑誌
- 東南アジア -歴史と文化- (ISSN:03869040)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.1986, no.15, pp.28-62, 1986-05-20 (Released:2010-02-25)
- 参考文献数
- 46
- 被引用文献数
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1
In the first section, the author reviews decisions and draft plans made by the Japanese authorities from 1936 to 1940, with a special attention to the documents in September 1940. By so doing, he analyzes the policy makers' intentions and various internal and external conditions which determined the Japanese economic plan toward Indochina.The second section is a part of the discussion how the Japanese tried to carry out this plan. First, they started negotiations with the French in September 1940 and concluded economic agreements in May 1941, which enabled Japan to obtain necessary natural resources and to break the decades-long French monopoly system of Indochina's economy. Second, Japan sent a large-scale investigation team to gather first-hand information and establish future plans concerning the Indochinese economy.In the concluding section, the author emphasizes that the Japanese actual economic activities toward Indochina essentially aimed to obtain necessary resources and funds without paying enough returns. Japan did not and could not carry out many of future plans proposed by the above-mentioned research mission. In other words, Japanese actual investments tended to focus on commercial and transportation sectors and not to sufficiently go to mining and industrial sectors. This fact demonstrates that Japan concentrated her economic efforts on the mere acquisition of necessary resources which the French and Indochinese produced with their own finances and labours. At the same time, the Japanese tried to import goods from Indochina without spending foreign currency. For that purpose, however, the 1941 agreements turned out soon to be insufficient and, therefore, in January 1943, Japan introduced another financial arrangement. It is noteworthy that this new arrangement was not only applied to the liquidation of trades. It also functioned to be a system of loans in piastres which the Japanese staying in Indochina needed for their military and non-military purpose. With this system they could get huge amount of piastres without substantial returns. To conclude, those Japanese economic activities invited dreadful inflation in the Indochinese society.