Chalmers Johnson - MITI and the Japanese miracle

Okochi Shigeo, 170

Okubo* Toshimichi, 190

Okuma* Shigenobu, 86

Okura* Masataka, 65

Okura zaibatsu, 85

Ono* Bamboku, 248, 255, 261f

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 11, 16, 80, 263f, 276, 281

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, 297

Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 231

Oshima* Kan'ichi, 182

Oura* Kanetake, 94n

Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund, 252

Oya Shinzo*, 250

Ozaki, Robert S., 26, 81

P

Pacific War (1941-45), 8, 41, 73, 88, 148, 154-72

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, 196, 241, 310

Parliamentary vice-ministers, 52n

Party politicians, 38, 46, 53f, 248, 261, 291, 294

Patents, 17, 217, 223-24, 247

Patrick, Hugh, 9

Peattie, Mark R., 153

Petrochemical industry, 9, 236-37, 258, 264, 267, 278, 303, 312

Petroleum Association of Japan, 299-300

Petroleum Industry Law (1934), 111, 120-21, 126, 132, 308

Petroleum refining industry, 3, 75, 121, 215, 278, 298-300, 302, 310

Petroleum Supply and Demand Normalization Law (1973), 298

Pine Sewing Machine Co., 246

Planned economy, 18-26, 31, 44, 177, 207, 228, 230, 318

Police Agency, 41, 77f

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Pollution, 22, 279, 283-84, 289, 293, 316

Pollution Countermeasures Basic Law (1967), 284

Postal savings, 14-15, 208ff, 313

Price Control Ordinance (1939), 147

Prime Minister's Office, 47, 78, 176, 234

Prince Motor Co., 268, 286

Production Cooperatives Law (1900), 99

Productivity Headquarters, 79

Profiteering Control Ordinance (1917), 91

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Rapp, William V., 206

Recessions:

prewar, 92, 96-101

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, 114;

postwar, 3, 16, 218-19, 227, 263-64, 275f, 301, 306.

See also

Depression (1930's)

Reconstruction Finance Bank, 179, 186, 199, 202, 207f, 232

Regulatory state, 10, 19-23, 305

Resources Bureau, 118, 126, 137

Resources Investigation Law (1929), 118

Rice Law (1920), 92

"Rice riots" (1918), 84, 89-92

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, 96, 295, 298

Roberts, John G., 11

Rodgers, Paul, 70

Roser, Foster B., 42

Rosovsky, Henry, 13, 30f

Ryu * Shintaro*, 150

S

Sahashi Shigeru, 48, 67, 73-74, 169, 274, 308f;

on industrial policy, 9, 81, 109, 227, 289, 302;

as MITI vice-minister, 65f, 149, 215, 264-72

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, 279ff, 286, 298ff;

career of, 213-14, 226, 238, 242-64, 322, 339

Saito* cabinet, 119, 122