The Archive · 1938

Japan's Economic Life Put Under Rigid Control

Government Announces "Material Mobilization"

Measures to Carry Through China War Tokyo, June 23.

IRTUAL war-time regulation us designed to make the most effective use of the nation's resources to carry on the China campaign were clamped on the economic life of Japan today in an extraordinary session of the Cab inet.

A far. duction, dis reaching plan for mobilization of the agencies of probution and consumption and placing them under strict emergency control was apr eved unanimously by the Cabinet. The two principal objectives of the plan are to insure a steady and plentiful flow of essential mater rials to the Japanese troops in China, and to promote export tra ide.

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