战争,尤其是现代战争,绝非仅仅是军事力量的较量,它还受其他诸多因素的影响和制约。其中经济力量的作用尤为重要。正如毛泽东同志所指出的:“战争不但是军事和政治的竞赛,还是经济的竞赛。”因此,要研究战争就必须研究战争经济。日本是第二次世界大战时期中日战争、太平洋战争的发动者,它野心勃勃,力图称霸亚洲和世界。但同它的称霸野心相比,其经济力量明显不足。因而,战争时期,日本不得不最大限度地调动全部经济力量为战争服务,从而使二战期间的日本经济成为典型的战争经 War, especially the modern war, is by no means merely a contest of military power. It is also affected and restricted by many other factors. The role of economic power is particularly important. As Comrade Mao Tse-tung pointed out: “War is not only a military and political contest, but also an economic race.” Therefore, to study the war we must study the war economy. Japan was the initiator of the Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War during the Second World War. It was ambitious and sought to dominate Asia and the world. However, compared with its ambition to dominate, its economic strength is obviously insufficient. Thus, during the war, Japan had to mobilize all its economic forces to serve the war to the fullest extent, thereby making the Japanese economy during World War II a classic war