1942-01-01

Aircraft production expansion

JapanAircraft production expansion is a war economy record, situated in the phase when cabinets, rationing, labor, and student mobilization were folded into total war. It belongs to the wider reshaping of military politics and home-front mobilization in Japan.

Other events in this phase

Japanese Imperial Home Front163
  1. War-reporting system shifts after the Pacific War opens
  2. Pacific War announced in Japan
  3. Attack on Pearl Harbor
  4. Aircraft production expansionCurrent record
  5. Rubber and metal collection drives
  6. Ship requisition controls
  7. Clothing rationing control
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Wartime Position

the phase when cabinets, rationing, labor, and student mobilization were folded into total war

Aircraft production expansion is a war economy record, situated in the phase when cabinets, rationing, labor, and student mobilization were folded into total war. It belongs to the wider reshaping of military politics and home-front mobilization in Japan.

Reading The Record

Placed against nearby events, the location, date, and actors around Japan clarify changes in front lines and governing practice.

Assembly work at Nakajima-Handa and Wikimedia Commons · Assembly work at Nakajima-Handa provide both visual evidence and source context for the event.

Media

Assembly work at Nakajima-HandaVisual recordAssembly work at Nakajima-HandaA photograph of aircraft assembly at Nakajima-Handa, anchoring Japan’s wartime aircraft-production expansion in factory work. It anchors the geography and surrounding context of “Aircraft production expansion.”

Source Trail

SourceWikimedia Commons · Assembly work at Nakajima-HandaOpen source