MITI and the Japanese miracle

Editorial Board, 1: 27677; and Matsubayashi, 1973, pp. 19192.

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24. See Industrial Policy Research Institute, pp. 2930, 12224; and Suzuki Yukio, 1969, pp. 66, 8486.

25. Bitten in hand: Sato *, p. 61. Grown son: Suzuki Yukio, 1969, p. 60. Department of Commerce: Yamamoto, pp. 6061. Neurotic: Suzuki Yukio, 1969, pp. 4546. Mama: Aoki, p. 143. Sokaiya*: Honda, 1: 41. Apathy:

Fifty years

, p. 398. Weeping: Kakuma, 1979a, p. 71.

26. Japan Civil Administration, 1970, p. 164; Nawa, 1975, p. 85; and Suzuki Yukio, 1969, pp. 3132.

27. See the interview with Kumagai, in Suzuki Yukio, 1969, pp. 83, 9293.

28. Matsubayashi, 1973, pp. 220, 223.

29. See Ota* Shin'ichiro*, 'Sangyo* kozo* seisaku' (Industrial structure policy), in Isomura, 1972, pp. 31215.

30. For former Vice-Minister of Finance Yoshikuni Jiro's* high appraisal of Tanaka's abilities and character, see Matsubayashi, 1976, pp. 23233.

31. 'Kissinger Says It Took Him Five Years to Understand Japan,'

Los Angeles Times

, Feb. 10, 1978.

32. See Destler, p. 305.

33. Published by Nikkan Kogyo* Shimbun Sha. In May 1973 the Simul Press brought out an English translation under the title

Building a New Japan: A Plan for Remodeling the Japanese Archipelago

.

34.

Tsusan

*

jyanaru

*, May 24, 1975, p. 18.

35.

Fifty Years

, p. 372.

36. On MITI's 1971 budget increase, see MITI,

Nempo

* (fiscal 1971), p. 65; and on Tanaka and Aizawa, see Sato, p. 63.

37. Campbell, p. 257.

38. See 'Japan's 'Economic Animals,''

Far Eastern Economic Review

, Mar. 26, 1973, pp. 3233.

39. Onishi*, p. 47; Komatsu, p. 148.

40. For the evolution of the old bureaus into the new ones, see Trade and Industry Handbook Compilation Committee, 1974, pp. 36061. For a critique of the new structure, see Honda, 1: 3538.

41. On Japan's initial reaction to the oil shock, see Johnson, 1976. On Bandar Shahpur, see the

Economist

(London), June 30, 1979, p. 82; and 'Mitsui Plans to Finish Stalled Work in Iran on Petrochemical Unit,'

Wall Street Journal

, May 7, 1980.

42. Quoted in Kakuma, 1979b, p. 269.

43. Aoki, pp. 13940. On toilet paper, plus a photograph of a toilet paper queue, see Komatsu, pp. 15255.

44. Nakamura, 1974, pp. 16973; Kakuma, 1979b, p. 195. For outlines of the laws themselves, as well as details on modifications of them made by the Diet, see MITI Information Office,

News from MITI

, no. 7355 (Dec. 15, 1973), no. 7356 (Dec. 15, 1973), and no. 7367 (Dec. 28, 1973).

45. 'FTC Raids,'

Japan Times

, Nov. 28, 1973.

46. The

Asahi

list is reprinted in Watanabe Yozo*, 'Sekiyu sangyo* to sengo keizaiho* taisei' (The petroleum industry and the postwar structure of economic law), in Tokyo University, 1975, 8: 275. See also 'Probe Into Oil Products Price- fixing,'

Japan Times

, Mar. 14, 1974; ''Prosecutors Probe,'

ibid.