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graph is not included in the set microfilmed, renumbered, and made generally available by the U.S. National Archives; it was microfilmed by the National Archives on June 4, 1974, at the special request of the author.

54. See, e.g., MITI, 1969a, p. 6.

55. Maeda, 1975, p. 14.

56. "New Japanese Law Sanctions Cartels,"

New York Times

, Sept. 27, 1953.

57. On the steel industry's "public sales system" see Nawa, 1976a, pp. 14654; Sahashi, 1967, pp. 18085; and "Gyosei * shido* no jittai o arau" (Probing the realities of administrative guidance),

Toyo

*

keizai

, Apr. 6, 1974, pp. 3133. Ariga Michiko, a long-time staff member of the FTC and the first woman to become a commissioner (196772), refers to the steel sales system as an "emasculation" of the AML. See the interview with her, "Kazaana aita dokkinho*'' (The AML riddled with holes),

Ekonomisuto

Editorial Board, 1: 22654, particularly pp. 24344.

58. MITI,

Nempo

* (fiscal 1957), pp. 100101; (fiscal 1958), p. 100; and (fiscal 1959), p. 99.

59. Sahashi, 1971a, pp. 26675; Sahashi, 1972, pp. 1819.

60. Kakuma, 1979b, p. 106.

61. Economic Planning Agency, 1976, pp. 7576; and Onishi*, p. 13. Kusayanagi Daizo* touches on the origins of the heavy and chemical industrialization policy in

Bungei

shunju

*, Aug. 1974, pp. 11213.

62. For the text of the MITI plan, see MITI, 1962, pp. 499501.

63. See Hirai's comments on Okano and Ishibashi, in Matsubayashi, 1973, pp. 3134, 4142; and Industrial Policy Research Institute, p. 247.

64. Quoted in

Consider Japan

, p. 56.

65. See Shibagaki Kazuo, in Tokyo University, 1975, 8: 89.

66. Japan External Trade Organization, pp. 268, 95152. The JETRO Establishment Law is printed in an English translation, pp. 93543.

67. See "How Foreign Lobby Molds U.S. Opinion,"

San Francisco Chronicle

, Sept. 15, 1976. Between 1959 and 1962 the New York office of JETRO also employed the services of former New York governor Thomas E. Dewey as a lobbyist. See Japan External Trade Organization, p. 78.

68.

Ekonomisuto

Editorial Board, 1: 100105; Japan External Trade Organization, p. 49;

Fifty Years

, p. 273; MITI Journalists' Club, 1956, pp. 88101; and Stone, pp. 14748.

69. Nakamura, 1969, p. 309.

70.

Ekonomisuto

Editorial Board, 1: 5152.

71. See Kakizaki.

72. Ministry of Finance, Tax Bureau, p. 84.

73.

Ekonomisuto

Editorial Board, 1: 2728.

74.

Ibid.

, pp. 2425.

75. Kakizaki, p. 83; Ministry of Finance, Tax Bureau, pp. 8491.

76. MITI,

Nempo

(fiscal 1956), p. 109.

77.

Ibid.

(fiscal 1964), p. 62.

78. Tsuruta Toshimasa, in Kobayashi, 1976, p. 148.

79.

Ekonomisuto

Editorial Board, 1: 3638.

80. On the petrochemical industry, see inter alia, MITI, 1969b, pp. 31724 (basic policy statements);

Ekonomisuto

Editorial Board, 2: 98148 (government-business relationships); and Senba Tsuneyoshi, in History of Industrial Policy Research Institute, 1977a, pp. 100114 (licensing and import of