Yonai's economic policy through trusted specialists

What was Mitsumasa Yonai's approach to economic policy?

The panel says he delegated to trusted experts, while using the same information-seeking approach with the army and beginning to reduce funding for the war in China.

Rather than claiming detailed personal command of economics, the panel portrays Yonai as choosing honorable specialists and letting them work. He reportedly asked the army for its best information as well, then began pulling some resources away from China. That decision helps explain the army minister's resignation and shows how economic policy, civil-military relations, and the China war were inseparable.