, May 24, 1975, p. 29.
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51. For Kudo's * comment, see Kakuma, 1979b, p. 29. For Ikeda's, see Shioguchi, p. 112. See also Japan Development Bank, p. 484; and Ikeda.
52. See Akaboshi, p. 16.
53. Cohen, p. 431.
54. Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, Monograph 50, 'Foreign Trade,' p. 152. (This monograph was declassified only on February 27, 1970.)
55. Boeki-cho* translates literally as 'trade agency,' but the BOT itself used the title 'Board of Trade' on its stationery and other official documents. For the creation of the BOT, see MITI, 1965, p. 414; and MITI, 1971, p. 361.
56. For Toyoda's recollections, see MITI, 1960, pp. 1056; and
*
*, May 24, 1975, p. 24.
57. Japan External Trade Organization, p. 3.
58. Inaba, 1965, pp. 21837. See also Fukui Haruhiro, 'Economic Planning in Postwar Japan: A Case Study in Policy Making,'
, 12 (Apr. 1972): 33031.
59. Kakuma, 1979a, pp. 1314, 25355; MITI, 1960, p. 113 (Matsuda Taro's* recollections); Nawa, 1974, p. 33; and Shiroyama, Aug. 1975, p. 314.
60. See Shioguchi, pp. 4042.
61. For Inagaki's speech, see MITI, 1962, pp. 38687.
62. See Ozaki, 1972; and MITI, 1971, pp. 39099.
63. MITI, 1962, pp. 44849.
64. Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, Monograph 50, 'Foreign Trade,' p. 110.
65. Hollerman, 1979, p. 719.
66. Charles S. Maier,
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1975), pp. 580, 582.
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1. Nakamura, 1969, p. 313.
2. Japan Development Bank, p. 17.
3. See Johnson, 1972.
4. Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, Monograph 47, 'The Heavy Industries,' p. 120.
5. Boltho, p. 55
.
6. Note John Campbell's comment: 'Not only was Ikeda an expansionist, but he had a far more activist conception of his office with respect to domestic policy in general and the budget in particular than any prime minister since Yoshida and until Tanaka.' Campbell, p. 233.
7. See Chalmers Johnson, 'Low Posture Politics in Japan,'
, 3 (Jan. 1963): 1730.
8. See MITI Journalists' Club, 1956, p. 42; Kakuma, 1979b, p. 84; and Abe, p. 255.
9. Ito* Daiichi, 1968, p. 465.
10. Broadbridge, p. 88.
11. Watanabe, p. 234.
12. See MITI,
*
*
* (fiscal 1949), p. 129 (hereafter cited as MITI,
*).
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13. As an example of the misplaced cultural explanation, note the following: 'Neither profitability nor common financing or trading activities explain the grouping of firms along the keiretsu lineage. The basic motivation for the grouping of keiretsu firms lies in sociological factors. The tendency to form a group is an inherent part of Japan's cultural tradition.' Haitani, p. 124.
14. Ikeda, pp. 14850.
15. See 'Mergers Revive Trade Concerns Splintered in Japan in Occupation,'
