MITI and the Japanese miracle

, Mar. 20, 1974; 'Probers to Grill MITI,'

ibid.

, Mar. 25, 1974; 'MITI Role Questioned,'

ibid.

, Apr. 16, 1974; 'MITI Says Oil Industry's Acts Com-

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pletely Lawful,'

ibid.

, Apr. 17, 1974; 'Prosecutors Get Oil Price Report,'

ibid.

, May 8, 1974.

47. See

Nihon keizai shimbun, Asahi shimbun, Japan Times, Mainichi Daily News

, and

Wall Street Journal

, May 29, 1974. See also the

Asahi

series 'Sekiyu karuteru' (Oil cartel), May 29 and 30, 1974; 'Oil Companies Are Indicted'

Japan Economic Journal

, June 4, 1974; ''Letter from Tokyo,'

Far Eastern Economic Review

, June 3, 1974. On the progress and outcome of the case, see Kakuma, 1979b, pp. 15470, 17889;

Japan Economic Journal

, Oct. 21, 1980, editorial;

Japan Times Weekly

, Feb. 14, 1981.

48. 'Antimonopoly Law,'

Japan Times

, May 30, 1974; 'MITI-FTC Dispute,'

Mainichi Daily News

, June 29, 1974.

49. See Chalmers Johnson, 'Japan: The Year of 'Money-Power' Politics,'

Asian Survey

, 15 (Jan. 1975): 2534; and Chalmers Johnson, 'Japan 1975: Mr. Clean Muddles Through,'

Asian Survey

, 16 (Jan. 1976): 3141.

50. For a chronology of the AML revision, see Komatsu, p. 174; for Shiina's killing of the AML revision bill in 1975, see Nawa, 1976a, p. 94. See also 'FTC Head Takahashi Quits,'

Japan Times

, Feb. 6, 1976.

51. See Morozumi.

52. MITI, 1974, 268 pp. The 1975 updating, of some 398 pp., was published on Aug. 20, 1975. JETRO also brought out a translation of the first 'vision plan' under the title

Japan's Industrial Structure: A Long Range Vision

(Tokyo: JETRO, 1975), as well as an English supplement to the 1975 version.

53.

News from MITI

, no. 7934 (Dec. 20, 1979);

Look Japan

, Jan. 10, 1980.

54. See Saxonhouse.

Nine

1. Sam Jameson and John F. Lawrence, 'U.S. Problem Not Labor but ManagersSony Chief,'

Los Angeles Times

, Oct. 29, 1980.

2. 'Firms Go Wild on Expenses; Japan's Taxmen Indulgent,'