MITI and the Japanese miracle

(Tokyo: Kodansha* International, 1975), p. 193.

Seven

1. For Sahashi's background, see his autobiography,

Ishoku

kanryo

*, 1967; and Sahashi, 1972, pp. 15862.

2. Note that the term

ishoku kanryo

(exceptional bureaucrat) was also applied before the war to Wada Hiroo, the Agriculture Ministry official who was arrested in the Cabinet Planning Board incident and who headed the Economic Stabilization Board during the occupation. See Inaba, 1977, p. 178. For the phrase 'samurai among samurai,' see Matsubayashi, 1973, p. 138. For

gebaruto kanryo

, see Kusayanagi, May 1969, p. 162. For

kaijin Sachan

, see Kusayanagi, 1974, p. 115. See also Suzuki Yukio, 1969, p. 62.

3. Sahashi, 1967, p. 207.

4. MITI Journalists' Club, Oct. 1963, p. 76.

5.

Ekonomisuto

Editorial Board, 1: 7274; MITI Journalists' Club, 1956, pp. 19094.

6.

Ekonomisuto

Editorial Board, 1: 14243.

7. Sahashi, 1967, p. 215. See also Kakuma, 1979b, pp. 13136.

8. For a photograph of the

Sakura Maru

and a story about it, see 'Japan's Floating Fair Finds Success in Europe,'

New York Times

, Aug. 10, 1964. For the loan of the

Sakura

to the United States, see 'Japanese Get Chance to Buy U.S. Goods at U.S. Prices,'

Los Angeles Times

, Oct. 30, 1978.

9. See Sahashi, 1967, pp. 191207; and Akimoto, pp. 8082.

10. Interview with Imai,

Ekonomisuto

, Sept. 14, 1976, p. 78.

11.

Ibid.

, p. 79.

12. Komatsu, p. 23.

13. Shiroyama, 1975a, pp. 8687. On the rates of liberalization, see MITI, 1965, pp. 698, 703.

14. Arisawa, 1976, p. 443; MITI Journalists' Club, Oct. 1963, p. 74.

15. Sahashi, 1967, p. 248.

16. See Ota* Shini'chiro* (MITI Secretariat, Planning Office), 'Sangyo* kozo* seisaku' (Industrial structure policy), in Isomura, 1972, pp. 31215; MITI, 1969a, p. 11; MITI, 1972, pp. 12831; and MITI,

Nempo

(fiscal 1961), pp. 7576, 10910.

17. Industrial Structure Investigation Council, ed.,

Nihon no

sangyo

*

kozo

*.

18. Akaboshi, pp. 7382; MITI Journalists' Club, Oct. 1963, pp. 7884; MITI Journalists' Club, 1963a, p. 39; and Ito* Daiichi, 1967, pp. 78104.

19. Maeda, 1975, p. 16; Arisawa, 1976, p. 443; and Suzuki Yukio, 1963.

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20. For various analyses of Japanese 'excessive competition,' see Abegglen and Rapp; Aliber; Boltho, p. 61; and Hollerman, 1967, p. 162.

21. Takashima Setsuo.