MITI and the Japanese miracle

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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

R

Rapp, William V., 206

Recessions:

prewar, 92, 96-101

passim

, 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

passim

, 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

passim

, 279ff, 286, 298ff;

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

Saito* cabinet, 119, 122

Sakakibara Eisuke, 62, 74, 78

Sakigawa Saishiro*, 94n

Sakomizu Hisatsune, 125, 150, 352

Sakonji Seizo*, 152

Sakon Tomosaburo*, 283

Sakura Maru

, 248, 255

Sakurauchi Yoshio, 265, 268

Sakurauchi Yukio, 350

Samurai, 36-40

passim

, 73

San Francisco Peace Conference, 190, 219

Sanwa Bank, 111, 205, 228, 260f

Sanyo* Special Steel Co., 264, 276

Sata Tadataka, 152

Sato* Eisaku, 45f, 56, 127, 247, 262, 322;

as prime minister, 53, 244n, 264f, 285, 291f, 316;

as MITI minister, 254-55, 261

Sato Hiroko, 127

Sato Kiichiro*, 71

Sato Naokuni, 182

Satsuma feudal domain, 37f, 57, 88, 94n, 190

Savings system, 11-15

passim. See also

Postal savings

Schumpeter, Joseph, 81

Science and Technology Agency, 76

Seibu Railroad Co., 69

Seidensticker, Edward, 35

Seiyukai*, 46, 57, 91ff, 95n, 107, 111f, 123, 127

Shibata Ginzo*, 69

Shidehara cabinet, 122, 148

Shiina Etsusaburo*, 55f, 113, 149, 263, 300f, 309;

in Manchuria, 33, 125, 130-31;

as MITI vice-minister, 66, 153, 164, 168-72

passim

, 188;

as MITI minister, 245, 254

Shijo* Takafusa, 83, 94-95

Shijo Takahira, 94n

Shimada Yoshito, 281

Shimamura Takehisa, 208

Shingikai,

see

Deliberation councils

Shipbuilding industry, 209, 211, 232, 240, 303

Shipbuilding Industry Law (1939), 133

Shirasu Jiro*, 189-93, 213f, 322

Shiroyama Saburo*, 81, 145, 153, 243 and n, 251, 266

Shiseki Ihei, 130

Sho* Kiyoshi, 66

Shoup, Carl S., 232-34

Showa* Denko* Co., 167, 216;

corruption case of, 68, 184, 189, 233

Showa Oil Co., 214, 356-57

Showa Research Association, 150

Showa steel works, 148

Siemens case (1914), 68

Singer Sewing Machine Co., 246

Smaller Business Finance Corp., 79

Smith, Adam, 24, 32

Soejima Sempachi, 89

Sony Corp., 24, 55, 236, 313f

South Manchurian Railroad, 56, 127, 130, 163, 180

Soviet Union, 18, 105, 116, 140, 148, 308, 351f

Spaulding, Robert M., Jr., 47, 57

Special Measures Law for the Promotion of Designated Industries (1963), 32, 226, 255-67

passim

, 273, 280, 282, 298ff, 312, 320

Special Measures Law for the Stabilization of Designated Medium and Smaller Enterprises (1952), 225

Standard Vacuum Oil Co., 121