MITI and the Japanese miracle

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TABLE

5

Relative Rates of Promotion by Entering Class (as of December 1, 1975)

Ministry

Vice- minister

Director-general, external bureau

Chief, internal bureau

Deputy chief, bureau; or department head

Chief, the three Secretariat Sections

Chief, General Affairs Section in bureau or agency

First ap- pointment, section chief

Chief, regional bureau

Finance

1944

1946

19461948 (I)

1948 (II)1950

19511952

19511952

1958

19481952

MITI

1944

19451947 (II)

1947 (I)1948 (II)

1948 (II)1951

1952

19521953

1961

19491951

Agriculture

1945

19451947 (I)

19461948

19481953

19521954

19531954

1960

19481951

Transportation

1943

1946

19461948 (II)

1948 (I)1951

1953

19531955

1961

19521954

Construction

1944

1945

19451949

19491952

19511952

19521953

1958

none

SOURCE

: Watanabe Yasuo, "Komuin * no kyaria" (Careers of officials), in Tsuji Kiyoaki, ed.,

Gyoseigaku*

koza*

(Lectures on the science of administration), Tokyo, 1976, 4: 191.

NOTE

: The economic ministries recruited spring (I) and autumn (II) classes during 1947 and 1948 to meet their expanded duties under economic control.