MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy 1925-1975

From dust jacket notes: "Central to an understanding of Japan's 'miracle' - the unprecedented economic growth that has made Japan the second most productive open economy in history - is the role of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), an elite bureaucratic department with no precise equivalent in any other country. This study, the first in any language, describes MITI's origins, structure, and activities from its beginnings in the 1920's to the immediate aftermath of the international oil crisis of 1973-74...."