MITI and the Japanese miracle

Ministry of Finance bureaucrats take over the Defense Agency),

Sande

*

mainichi

, July 30, 1978, pp. 13234. For the background of the Self-Defense Forces, see Martin E. Weinstein,

Japan's Postwar Defense Policy, 19471968

(New York: Columbia University Press, 1971). See also Honda, 2: 12155.

105. Shibano, pp. 13139.

106. Watanabe Yasuo, in Tsuji, 4: 186.

107. Hollerman, 1967, pp. 16061.

108. Sakakibara, Nov. 1977, p. 71.

109. For a study of these institutions, see Johnson, 1978.

110. MITI Journalists' Club, 1956, pp. 27374.

111. Nawa, 1974, pp. 12628. The ranks from step seven and below may vary from time to time. See also Nawa, Apr. 1976.

112. See

Kankai

Editorial Board, Oct. 1976; and Fukui Haruhiro, 'The GATT Tokyo Round: The Bureaucratic Politics of Multilateral Diplomacy,' in Blaker, pp. 1012.

113. Akaboshi, pp. 16472; Policy Review Company, 1970, s.v. 'Tsusan-sho*,' pp. 6869.

114. Kakuma, 1979a, pp. 103, 107.

115. Japan Civil Administration Research Association, 1970, p. 153.

116. Kusayanagi, May 1969, p. 163.

117. 'MITI and Japan's Economic DiplomacyWith Special Reference to the Concept of National Interest,' unpublished paper for the Social Science Research Council Conference on Japanese Foreign Policy, Jan. 1974, p. 46.

118. Sahashi, 1971a, pp. 26668.

119. Ozaki, 1970, p. 887.

120. Kakuma, 1979b, pp. 220, 223.

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Three

1. See James Q. Wilson, 'The Rise of the Bureaucratic State,'

The Public Interest

, 41 (Fall 1975): 77103.

2. Kobayashi, 1977, p. 102

et seq.

3. Tiedemann, p. 139.

4. Horie Yasuzo *, 'The Transformation of the National Economy,' in Tobata*, pp. 6789.

5. See Roberts, p. 131.

6. See MITI, 1962, pp. 3163.

7. In Tobata, p. 87.

8. Kusayanagi, May 1969, p. 173.

9. Arisawa, 1976, p. 4; Odahashi, p. 139.

10. Yoshino Shinji, 1962, pp. 99100; History of Industrial Policy Research Institute, 1975, 2: 35; Maeda, 1975, p. 9.

11. Yoshino Shinji, 1962, pp. 1821, 3435.

12. History of Industrial Policy Research Institute, 1975, 1: 10; 2: 12427.

13. Honda, 2: 911; and Inaba, 1977, pp. 17684. Incidentally, another illustrious figure who got a start on his life work in the old MAC was Yanagita Kunio (18751962).

14. Masumi, p. 172.

15. Japan Industrial Club, 1: 109.

16. Arisawa, 1976, p. 5.

17. Havens, p. 74.

18. See MITI, 1951, p. 6163; MITI, 1962, pp. 17080; MITI, 1964, pp. 3840; MITI, 1965, pp. 79; Kakuma, 1979a, pp. 16465; and Shiroyama Saburo*,

Nezumi

(The rat) (Tokyo: Bungei Shunju* Sha, 1966). On kaishime, see Frank Baldwin, 'The Idioms of Contemporary Japan,'

The Japan Interpreter

, 8 (Autumn 1973): 396409.

19. Shirasawa, pp. 2833; Ann Waswo,

Japanese Landlords: the Decline of a Rural Elite

(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977), pp. 11718.

20. Takane, pp. 7478; and Goto*.

21. Yoshino Shinji Memorial Society, pp. 20710; Kakuma, 1979a, pp. 17678; Nawa, 1974, pp. 1819; and Kishi, in MITI, 1960, p. 95.

22. On Kobiki-cho*, see Yoshino Shinji, 1965, p. 147

et seq.

23. Kakuma, 1979a, p. 163; Japan Industrial Club, 1: 111.

24. Japan Industrial Club, 1: 4751.

25.

Fifty Years

, p. 18; and Roberts, pp. 24042.

26. Yoshino Shinji Memorial Society, pp. 17577, 188, 194204; and Yoshino Shinji, 1962, pp. 4344. On Kawai