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47.

Report of the Japan-United States Economic Relations Group, Prepared for the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Japan

(Washington, D.C.: Japan-U.S. Economic Relations Group, 1981), p. 61.

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1. Quoted in Suzuki Yukio, 1969, pp. 49, 124.

2. MITI,

Nempo

* (fiscal 1965), p. 69.

3. Nawa, 1974, pp. 3940.

4. Kakuma, 1979a, pp. 7375.

5. See Kato* Hidetoshi, "Sanken: A Power Above Government,"

The Japan Interpreter

, 7 (Winter 1971): 3642; Nawa, 1976a, pp. 8182, 26566; and Yamamoto, pp. 7475.

6. See the interviews with Nakayama Sohei, in

Ekonomisuto

, July 6 and 13, 1976.

7. For details, see Allan R. Pearl, "Liberalization of Capital in Japan, Parts I and II,"

Harvard International Law Journal

, 13, nos. 1 and 2 (Winter and Spring, 1972): 5987, 24570.

8. See "Japanese Economy Attracts Oil Money,"

Washington Post

, Oct. 5, 1980.

9. On the funeral controversy, see Kakuma, 1979b, pp. 4749; Matsubayashi, 1973, p. 138; and Sahashi, 1967, pp. 299306. See also the volume of the Kawahara Hideyuki Memorial Committee.

10. For the text and an analysis of the MITI-FTC agreement, see Ueno, pp. 2426.

11. Ojimi* and Uchida, p. 31. See also Yamamoto's comments (on the

Mainichi

leak), in Matsubayashi, 1973, p. 166; and Nawa (on Uchida's group), 1974, p. 42.

12. See Urata.

13. Japan Civil Administration Research Association, 1970, p. 156.

14. Shibano, p. 27; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1977b, p. 29.

15. See "Japan: Environmentalism with Growth,"

Wall Street Journal

, Sept. 5, 1980. On MITI's internal changes, see Policy Review Company, 1970, s.v. "Tsusan-sho*," pp. 12729.

16. See Hanabusa, p. 123; and Nawa, 1974, p. 45.

17. Maeda, 1975, p. 17.

18. See "MITI: Japan's Economic Watchdog,"

Business Week

, Aug. 19, 1967; and Suzuki Yukio, 1969, p. 47.

19. Hanabusa, pp. 18489.

20. On price differentials of Japanese electrical appliances, see

ibid.

, p. 32; on grapefruit and other issues, see Kakuma, 1979b, pp. 21420.

21. "Study on Trade Deficit with the Japanese,"

Wall Street Journal

, Apr. 29, 1980. For the total number of vehicles produced in Japan between 1965 and 1977, as well as the number exported and imported each year, see Komatsu, p. 41.

22. Kakuma, 1979b, pp. 14951;

Mitsubishi Group

, pp. 3435; Suzuki Yukio, 1969, pp. 6466; and Yamamoto, pp. 5457, 8891, 191, 200.

23. For Vice-Minister Kumagai's views of these events, see

Ekonomisuto

Editorial Board, 1: 27677; and Matsubayashi, 1973, pp. 19192.