During the Second World War, the Japanese government and private sector searched for and implemented new mechanisms for coordination and motivation. One of these was sangyo hokokukai (sanpo). The Sanpo unit was basically an organization of the employer and employees of each firm, which held meetings to moderate labour relations. As a result of government policy to promote sanpo units, around 70 per cent of the total workers in Japan were organized into sanpo units in the early 1940s.
The idea of sanpo originated in a document entitled "Emergency Measures for Moderating Labor Relationships", drafted by the Police Department of Aichi Prefecture in October 1937. This document proposed the setting-up of factory committees, in which representatives of the employer and employees participated, in order to resolve and prevent labour disputes. While the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Welfare at first placed importance on the proper management of labor relations at sanpo meetings, from late 1939 they began to modify their official view. They announced an alternative official view that work was a national duty, and sanpo meetings were a way of fulfilling that duty. ‘Outline of the Sanpo Movement’, issued by the Labour Bureau of the Ministry of Welfare in November 1939 stated, "the discussions on labor conditions during the early stages of the sanpo movement were due to a misunderstanding regarding the essence of the sanpo meeting".
In November 23, 1940, Dainippon Sangyō Hokokukai /大日本産業報國會 - Greater Japan Industrial Patriotic Service Association/ was established as the national centre of the sanpo movement. Since May 1942 Association was under control of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association https://asiamedals.info/forums/imperial-rule-assistance-association-badges.733/
Association emblem was designed in 1941 by famous Japanese graphic designer Hisui Sugiura /杉浦 非水/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisui_Sugiura
The idea of sanpo originated in a document entitled "Emergency Measures for Moderating Labor Relationships", drafted by the Police Department of Aichi Prefecture in October 1937. This document proposed the setting-up of factory committees, in which representatives of the employer and employees participated, in order to resolve and prevent labour disputes. While the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Welfare at first placed importance on the proper management of labor relations at sanpo meetings, from late 1939 they began to modify their official view. They announced an alternative official view that work was a national duty, and sanpo meetings were a way of fulfilling that duty. ‘Outline of the Sanpo Movement’, issued by the Labour Bureau of the Ministry of Welfare in November 1939 stated, "the discussions on labor conditions during the early stages of the sanpo movement were due to a misunderstanding regarding the essence of the sanpo meeting".
In November 23, 1940, Dainippon Sangyō Hokokukai /大日本産業報國會 - Greater Japan Industrial Patriotic Service Association/ was established as the national centre of the sanpo movement. Since May 1942 Association was under control of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association https://asiamedals.info/forums/imperial-rule-assistance-association-badges.733/
Association emblem was designed in 1941 by famous Japanese graphic designer Hisui Sugiura /杉浦 非水/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisui_Sugiura