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34. Yoshino Shinji, 1962, pp. 36566; History of Industrial Policy Research Institute, 1975, 2: 17677.

35. Nakamura, 1974, p. 44.

36. MITI, 1964, p. 141.

37. History of Industrial Policy Research Institute, 1975, 2: 271.

38. For a table of the 41 most important imperial ordinances derived from the law, see Arisawa, 1976, p. 156.

39. It might be noted that

busshi

doin

*

keikaku

is also the technical Japanese term for Soviet-type planning. See Ueno, p. 16. Concerning the original Japanese butsudo, Ito* comments that "conceptually, it was a plan for materials mobilization, budgeting in materials in place of what was formerly expressed with currency." Ito Mitsuharu, p. 361.

40. On the influence of the butsudo and Soviet precedents, see Nakamura, 1974, pp. 24, 16467; MITI, 1964, p. 124; and Tanaka, p. 655. Publication of the book by Tanaka was sponsored by Inaba Hidezo*, Tokunaga Hisatsugu, Sahashi Shigeru, and other leaders of postwar industrial policy.

41. Tanaka, p. 11.

42. Arisawa, 1976, pp. 14952; Inaba, 1965, pp. 22, 4044.

43. Inaba, 1965, pp. 26, 59; Ito Mitsuharu, p. 362; and Tanaka, preface.

44. Two MITI vice-ministers have drawn attention to their work on the butsudo*Hirai Tomisaburo* (

Tsusan

*

jyanaru

*, May 24, 1975, pp. 2830) and Ueno Koshichi* (MITI, 1960, p. 123). Ueno specifically mentions Sakomizu Hisatsune as a central figure in creating and executing the butsudo.

45. Nakamura, 1974, p. 63.

46. Yoshino Shinji Memorial Society, pp. 31012.

47. Shiroyama, Aug. 1975, p. 308.

48. In Morley, p. 311.

49. Maeda, 1968, pp. 3132; Kumagai, quoted in Suzuki Yukio, 1969, pp. 9293.

50. MITI, 1964, p. 148.

51. See Miyake.

52. See "Nihon keizai no saihensei to Ryu* Shintaro*," in Goto* Ryunosuke*,

Showa

*

kenkyu

*

kai

(The Showa* Research Association) (Tokyo: Keizai Orai* Sha, 1968), pp. 22534.

53. See Arisawa, 1976, pp. 200203; Nakamura, 1974, pp. 95102; and MITI, 1964, pp. 44449. For an interesting defense of the Economic New Structure, see Tsukata.

54. Anderson, pp. 149, 154.

55. Kakuma, 1979a, p. 231; and Imai.

56. Fujiwara, p. 446.

57. Inaba, 1965, pp. 5580; and Inaba, 1977.

58. On Inaba's connection with the Kyocho* Kai, see Inaba, 1977. Yoshida Shigeru, the first director of the Cabinet Research Bureau, was also affiliated with the Kyocho Kai, and he brought from it to the Research Bureau Inaba, Katsumata, and Minoguchi Tokijiro*, a prominent professor of economics at Hitotsubashi University after the war. On the Kyocho Kai, see Japan Industrial Club, 1: 103.

59. For the text of the ordinance and a chart of the most important control associations and their presidents, see MITI, 1964, pp. 45865, 508.

60. Shiroyama, Aug. 1975, pp. 31112.

61. Bisson, p. 3.

62. Peattie, p. 219.