(8)
(5)
(4)
(6)
SUBTOTAL
1,481
1,303
1,364
1,595
2,131
2,314
2,606
2,856
3,697
(38)
(34)
(31)
(23)
(27)
(24)
(23)
(19)
(20)
TOTAL
3,937
3,835
4,420
6,896
8,040
9,468
11,547
15,132
18,036
(100)
(100)
(100)
(100)
(100)
(100)
(100)
(100)
(100)
SOURCE
: Endo * Shokichi*,
* (Fiscal investment and loan funds), Tokyo, 1966, p. 149.
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early years was the International Trade Bureau, the successor to the old Board of Trade. But the fact that the bureau's chief and most of its senior officials were diplomats marking time until foreign relations were restored inevitably meant that the bureau was known as a ''branch store of the Foreign Office' (
*
)and was deeply resented as such by the veterans of the Kishi-Shiina era. This was also MITI's 'dark age,' when the position of chief secretary was occupied by Nagayama Tokio, who had been placed in office by Yoshida's personal adviser, Shirasu Jiro*.
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The first order of business for the new vice-minister, Yamamoto Takayuki, was to try to restore the morale of the industrial policy bureaucrats and to deal with the factional problems created by Nagayama's presence. Two situations aided him in these endeavors: Dodge's balanced budget policy had dictated a major reduction in the numbers of government officials, and SCAP after the outbreak of the Korean War had turned its purge directives against communists, who as a practical matter were primarily trade
