National Policy Research Association

Japanese: 国策研究会 - こくさくけんきゅうかい

A private national policy research institute on a par with the Showa Research Society. Its central figure was Yaji Kazuo. In 1933, when the Ministry of the Army asked him to draft national policy, Yaji felt the need for a comprehensive policy research organization, and in 1934, conspired with Okura Kinmochi and others, to establish the National Policy Research Society. At first, it had few members and was merely a private research group, but after Yaji was arrested in the February 26 Incident and the group was reorganized and restructured, it grew into a full-fledged research, study, and planning organization with 2,000 members and ample operating funds (financial support from the Army and Navy, as well as zaibatsu), and exerted a major influence on the drafting of important wartime policies, including the Electricity National Control Bill.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

昭和研究会とならぶ民間の国策研究機関。中心人物は矢次一夫。1933年陸軍省から国策立案を依頼されたのを機に，総合的な政策研究組織の必要を感じた矢次が大蔵公望などとはかって34年国策研究会を設立。当初は会員も少なく，私的研究会にすぎなかったが，二･二六事件で矢次が逮捕されたのを機に会の改組･再編をはかってのちは，2000名に及ぶ会員と潤沢な活動資金(陸海軍，財閥から資金援助)とをもつ本格的な調査･研究･立案組織へと成長し，電力国家管理法案をはじめとする戦時重要政策の立案に大きな影響力を及ぼした。

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