Since 1991, according to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Japan has destroyed more businesses than it has created.
JCO, for example, was a straggler kept alive by Japan's powerful nuclear lobby and its friends at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
Tokyo's Economic Planning Agency is projecting fiscal 1999 growth of 0.5%, resisting pressure from the powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry for a higher forecast.
More worrying still, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry has warned makers of 24-hour baths, which keep supposedly purified water hot all day, that their products may harbour Legionnaires' disease.
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An extraordinary parliamentary session will then be called for September, ostensibly to pass a bunch of job-creation and company-restructuring proposals that the Ministry of International Trade and Industry is beavering away on.
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Yoshikai Masanori, deputy director general of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, warned that there could be capital flight from economies that were seen as not doing enough to overcome the problem.
They have come a long way from the not-too-distant days when one of their biggest tasks was to deliver myriad production data to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry on the last business day of each month.
They still recall how a hard-nosed Hashimoto, as head of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in 1995, skillfully upstaged U.S. trade representative Mickey Kantor in televised talks over the thorny issue of trade in auto parts.
The head of the powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) is one of a new generation of Japanese politicians less influenced by Japan's World War II defeat and less indebted to the U.S. in the post-war years.
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Ota Fusae, 48, a former official at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, defeated two major rivals in a gubernatorial election in Osaka Prefecture to become the country's first female prefectural governor, and one of the youngest, too.
Some reports say that the Prime Minister has overruled Robin Cook and Clare Short, the International Development Secretary, in favour of the Ministry of Defence and the Department of Trade and Industry.
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