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been closely involved in the sale of the old naval fuel depot at Yokkaichi to zaibatsu interests. Both Showa * Oil and Mitsubishi Yuka are located at Yokkaichi.

34. For the text, see MITI, 1972, pp. 4244. See also Tsuruta Toshimasa, "Sangyo* seisaku to kigyo* keiei" (Industrial policy and enterprise management), in Kobayashi, 1976, p. 138.

35. See Ueno, pp. 23, 221

et seq.

The subtitle of this book is "A Study of Economic Laws and Administration and Their Effects."

36. MITI,

Nempo

* (fiscal 1949), p. 128; (fiscal 1950), p. 148; (fiscal 1951), pp. 14549; and (fiscal 1952), p. 164.

37. Noda Nobuo, pp. 2728. On the reverse flow of American management techniques, see "U.S. Firms Worried by Productivity Lag; Copy Japan in Seeking Employee's Advice,"

Wall Street Journal

, Feb. 21, 1980; and the important follow-up letter of Martin Bronfenbrenner, "How Japanese Firms Pick Their Workers,"

Wall Street Journal

, Mar. 10, 1980.

38. Noda Nobuo, p. 24; Sakaguchi, p. 175; and the eulogy of Ishikawa, written by Deming, in Federation of Economic Organizations, pp. 26467. The 1980 recipient of the Deming Prize was the Fuji Xerox Co. See

Wall Street Journal

, Oct. 16, 1980.

39. MITI,

Nempo

(fiscal 1951), p. 148; and (fiscal 1952), p. 136.

40. Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, Monograph 50, "Foreign Trade," p. 130.

41. Ariga Michiko, "Regulation of International Licensing Agreements under the Japanese Antimonopoly Law," in Doi and Shattuck, p. 289.

42. MITI,

Nempo

(fiscal 1951), p. 149.

43. MITI, 1957, pp. 1314.

44. Sahashi, 1972, p. 160.

45. See Arisawa, 1976, pp. 34447; Akimi, pp. 4953; and MITI, 1970, p. 502. For an example of a later MITI official needling Ichimada because of his opposition to the Kawasaki project, see Amaya, pp. 7576.

46. On the World Bank loans, see MITI, 1972, p. 101. On the reaction to them, see the memoirs of Obori* Hiromu, who went to Washington to help negotiate the loans, in Industrial Policy Research Institute, p. 238; and MITI Journalists' Club, 1956, pp. 4748.

47. See Hirai's comments in

Tsusan

*

jyanaru

*, May 24, 1975, p. 29. See also Onishi*, p. 12.

48. Akimi, p. 78; Akimoto, pp. 1921; and MITI Journalists' Club, 1956, pp. 6687.

49. See "Kurabu kisha hodan*" (Free discussion by Press Club journalists),

Tsusan jyanaru

, May 24, 1975, p. 50.

50. Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, Monograph 26, "Promotion of Fair Trade Practices," pp. 95, 101.

51.

Ibid.

, p. 60.

52. On the Bridgestone case, see Hewins, p. 310; on the du PontToray case, see Senba Tsuneyoshi, "Sengo sangyo* gorika* to gijutsu donyu*" (Postwar industrial rationalization and the import of technology), in History of Industrial Policy Research Institute, 1977a, pp. 11819.

53. Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers,

Historical Monographs

, vol. X, part C, "Elimination of Private Control Associations," p. 85. This mono-