Let me note that there is a literature out there by Okazaki and others (a much weaker paper was in the May AER Papers and Proceedings) that argue that the crucial characteristics of the Japanese economy were established during WW II for worker morale building purposes, lifetime employment, and all that.
This parallels the argument that French planners came outof the Vichy regime and the argument of Skidelsky that the Nazi Funk Plan was the origin of the EU structure. Barkley Rosser
-- Rosser Jr, John Barkley rosserjb at jmu.edu