Japan’s Once-Mighty Economy Ministry Is Making a Comeback

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Japan’s trade ministry was once seen as so powerful that a prominent postwar tome credited it with the nation’s reconstruction: MITI and the Japanese Miracle by Chalmers Johnson was a must-read in the 1980s.