MITI and the Japanese miracle

/>

Sahashi's ''ronin *' (unemployed samurai) period.

4/72

Chairman of the board, Leisure Development Center, a MITI-sponsored association serving the tourism industry.

Page 340

2

Imai Zen'ei

April 1937

Enters MCI as member of class of 1937.

4/379/46

Assigned to Trade Bureau; Temporary Materials Coordination Bureau; Textiles Bureau, MCI-MM.

9/466/47

First section chief appointment: chief, Distribution Section, Coal Agency, MCI.

6/4710/49

Chief, Supply and Demand Section, Production Bureau, Economic Stabilization Board.

10/492/51

Chief, First Import Section, International Trade Bureau, MITI.

2/516/51

Chief, Trade Policy Section, International Trade Bureau.

6/518/52

First secretary, Japanese Embassy, Washington.

8/527/54

Chief, Trade Policy Section, International Trade Bureau.

7/546/56

Chief, General Affairs Section, Minister's Secretariat.

6/568/58

Chief, Promotion Department, Medium and Smaller Enterprises Agency.

8/582/61

Chief, Textiles Bureau.

2/617/62

Chief, International Trade Bureau.

7/627/63

Director, Patent Agency.

7/6310/64

Vice-minister.

11/65-

Executive director and then (5/66) president, Japan Petrochemicals; chairman, Petroleum Committee, Industrial Structure Council.

Page 343

Notes

Complete authors' names, titles, and publication data for the works cited in short form are given in the Bibliography, pp. 36780.

One

1. One of the most prominent Japanese economists, Shinohara Miyohei, subsequently acknowledged that he had not always understood or approved of government policy but that with hindsight he had changed his mind. See Shinohara. For the influence of the London

Economist

's book, see Arisawa, 1976, p. 371.

2. William W. Lockwood, 'Economic Developments and Issues,' in Passin, p. 89; Uchino Tatsuro *,

Japan's Postwar Economic Policies

(Tokyo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1976), p. 6.

3. Arisawa, 1937, p. 4

4. Kindleberger, p. 17.

5. See Goto*.

6. Richard Halloran,

Japan: Images and Realities

(New York: Knopf, 1970), p. 72.

7. Hadley, p. 87.

8.

Consider Japan

, p. 16.

9. Haitani, p. 181.

10. Kaplan, p. 14.

11. Ruth Benedict,

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946), p. 316.

12. Titus, p. 312.

13. See Chen.

14. Hugh Patrick, 'The Future of the Japanese Economy: Output and Labor Productivity,'

The Journal of Japanese Studies

, 3 (Summer 1977): 239.

15.

Ibid.

, p. 225.

16. Sahashi, 1972, p. 190.

17. Philip H. Trezise, 'Politics, Government, and Economic Growth in Japan,' in Patrick and Rosovsky, p. 782.

18. Campbell, pp. 2, 200. Slight Diet alterations of the budget also occurred in 1977 and 1978, during the period of thin majorities for the LDP.

19. Industrial Structure Council,

Japan's Industrial Structure: A Long Range Vision

(Tokyo: JETRO, 1975), p. 9.

20. Roberts, p. 439.

21. On the Three Sacred Treasures, see Shimada Haruo, 'The Japanese Employment System,'

Japanese Industrial Relations

, Series 6 (Tokyo: Japan Insti-

Page 344

tute of Labor, 1980), p. 8. For background and bibliography, see Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1977a.

22. Amaya, p. 18; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1972, p. 14.

23.