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leak), in Matsubayashi, 1973, p. 166; and Nawa (on Uchida's group), 1974, p. 42.

12. See Urata.

13. Japan Civil Administration Research Association, 1970, p. 156.

14. Shibano, p. 27; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1977b, p. 29.

15. See "Japan: Environmentalism with Growth,"

Wall Street Journal

, Sept. 5, 1980. On MITI's internal changes, see Policy Review Company, 1970, s.v. "Tsusan-sho*," pp. 12729.

16. See Hanabusa, p. 123; and Nawa, 1974, p. 45.

17. Maeda, 1975, p. 17.

18. See "MITI: Japan's Economic Watchdog,"

Business Week

, Aug. 19, 1967; and Suzuki Yukio, 1969, p. 47.

19. Hanabusa, pp. 18489.

20. On price differentials of Japanese electrical appliances, see

ibid.

, p. 32; on grapefruit and other issues, see Kakuma, 1979b, pp. 21420.

21. "Study on Trade Deficit with the Japanese,"

Wall Street Journal

, Apr. 29, 1980. For the total number of vehicles produced in Japan between 1965 and 1977, as well as the number exported and imported each year, see Komatsu, p. 41.

22. Kakuma, 1979b, pp. 14951;

Mitsubishi Group

, pp. 3435; Suzuki Yukio, 1969, pp. 6466; and Yamamoto, pp. 5457, 8891, 191, 200.

23. For Vice-Minister Kumagai's views of these events, see

Ekonomisuto

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.

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