State General Mobilization Law

State General Mobilization Law 国家総動員法
Newspaper announcing the passage of the law
Diet of Japan
Territorial extent	Empire of Japan
Enacted by	National Diet of Japan
Enacted	May 5th, 1938
Repealed by
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers
Status: Repealed

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The State General Mobilization Law (国家総動員法, Kokka Sōdōin Hō), also known as the National Mobilization Law, was legislated in the Diet of Japan by Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe on 24 March 1938 to put the national economy of the Empire of Japan on war-time footing after the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

The State General Mobilization Law had fifty clauses, which provided for government controls over civilian organizations (including labor unions), nationalization of strategic industries, price controls and rationing, and nationalized the news media.^[1] The laws gave the government the authority to use unlimited budgets to subsidize war production, and to compensate manufacturers for losses caused by war-time mobilization. Eighteen of the fifty articles outlined penalties for violators.

The law had long-term repercussions for the Japanese economy beyond its repeal by the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers in 1945. Many policies created by the law resulted in structural changes to Japanese labor policy, creating Japan's modern day union system and policies such as lifetime employment.