Editing Total war (section)

=====Imperial Japan=====
[[File:Founding Ceremony of the Hakko-Ichiu Monument.JPG|thumb|upright|Founding ceremony of the ''[[Hakkō ichiu]]'' Monument, promoting the unification of "the 8 corners of the world under one roof"]]

During the first part of the [[Shōwa era]], the government of [[Empire of Japan|Imperial Japan]] launched a string of policies to promote a total war effort [[Second Sino-Japanese War|against China]] and [[Pacific war|occidental powers]] and increase industrial production. Among these were the [[National Spiritual Mobilization Movement]] and the [[Taisei Yokusankai|Imperial Rule Assistance Association]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}

The [[State General Mobilization Law]] had fifty clauses, which provided for government controls over civilian organisations (including [[labour union]]s), [[nationalisation]] of strategic industries, price controls and [[rationing]], and nationalised the [[news media]].<ref>Pauer, ''Japan's War Economy'', 1999 p. 13</ref> The laws gave the government the authority to use unlimited budgets to subsidise war production and to compensate manufacturers for losses caused by war-time mobilisation. Eighteen of the fifty articles outlined penalties for violators.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}

To improve its production, Imperial Japan used millions of [[slave labour]]ers<ref>Unidas, Naciones. ''World Economic And Social Survey 2004: International Migration'', p. 23</ref> and [[Slavery in Japan|pressed more than 18 million people]] in [[East Asia]] into forced labour.<ref>Zhifen Ju, "''Japan's atrocities of conscripting and abusing north China draftees after the outbreak of the Pacific war''", 2002, [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+id0029) Library of Congress, 1992, "Indonesia: World War II and the Struggle For Independence, 1942–50; The Japanese Occupation, 1942–45"] Access date: 9 February 2007.</ref>