An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus (大和民族を中核とする世界政策の検討,, Yamato Minzoku o Chūkaku to suru Sekai Seisaku no Kentō), was a secret Japanese government report created by the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Population Problems Research Center, and completed on July 1, 1943.

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  • An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus (大和民族を中核とする世界政策の検討,, Yamato Minzoku o Chūkaku to suru Sekai Seisaku no Kentō), was a secret Japanese government report created by the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Population Problems Research Center, and completed on July 1, 1943. The document, comprising six volumes totaling 3,127 pages, deals with race theory in general, and the rationale behind policies adopted by wartime Japan towards other races, while also providing a vision of Asia under Japanese control. The document was classified, had a print run of only a hundred copies, had little effect on the war, and was forgotten until 1981, when portions were discovered in a used bookstore in Japan, and subsequently publicized by being used as source material for a chapter in historian John W. Dower’s book War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War The document was written in an academic style, surveying western philosophy on race from the writings of Plato and Aristotle to modern German social scientists, such as Karl Haushofer. The connection between racism, nationalism and imperialist capitalism was also noted, with the conclusion, drawing by citing both British and German sources, that overseas expansionism was essential not only for military and economic security, but for preserving racial consciousness. Concerns pertaining to the cultural assimilation of second and third generation immigrants into foreign cultures were also mentioned.
  • 『大和民族を中核とする世界政策の検討』は、1943年7月1日付けで大日本帝国厚生省（現・厚生労働省）の人口問題研究所が作成した秘密報告書である。 六巻 3,127 ページから成る報告書は主に人種理論を扱い、戦時中の他民族観の基礎や日本占領下のアジアの展望を論じている。 機密文書として作成され 100 部しか刷られなかったことや、戦争遂行に目立った影響を与えなかったことから久しく忘却されていたが、1981年に日本の古書店で発見され、歴史学者ジョン・ダワーが著書 War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (Faber and Faber, 1986, 邦訳『容赦なき戦争――太平洋戦争における人種差別』平凡社2001) で史料として用いたため広く知られることとなった。 1981年、厚生労働省は全六巻を復刻し、同じく復刻した『戦争の人口に及ぼす影響』二巻とともに刊行している。
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  • An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus
  • Yamato Minzoku o Chūkaku to suru Sekai Seisaku no Kentō
  • 大和民族を中核とする世界政策の検討,
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  • An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus (大和民族を中核とする世界政策の検討,, Yamato Minzoku o Chūkaku to suru Sekai Seisaku no Kentō), was a secret Japanese government report created by the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Population Problems Research Center, and completed on July 1, 1943.
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  • An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus
  • 大和民族を中核とする世界政策の検討
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