MITI and the Japanese Miracle

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MITI and the Japanese Miracle is a seminal study of Japan’s postwar economic development that argues the country’s rapid growth was driven by a powerful, interventionist bureaucracy centered in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.

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instanceOf book
economic history book
non-fiction book
study of Japan’s postwar economic development
academicDiscipline Japanese studies
economics
political science
analyzesInstitution Ministry of Commerce and Industry (Japan)
surface form: Ministry of International Trade and Industry
analyzesPolicy export promotion
industrial targeting
technology policy
analyzesPolicyTool administrative guidance
control of credit allocation
trade protection and liberalization sequencing
author Chalmers Johnson
centralArgument Japan’s rapid postwar growth was driven by a powerful interventionist bureaucracy
MITI and the Japanese Miracle self-linksurface differs
surface form: the Ministry of International Trade and Industry played a leading role in Japan’s economic miracle
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
examinesRelationshipWith Japanese business groups
Japanese private sector
zaibatsu and keiretsu
field comparative politics
economic history
political economy
focusesOnPeriod 1950s
1960s
1970s
post-World War II era
fullTitle MITI and the Japanese Miracle self-linksurface differs
surface form: MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925–1975
hasReputation classic study of the developmental state
seminal work on Japan’s postwar economic development
influenced studies of East Asian industrialization
theory of the developmental state
introducesConcept developmental state
language English
publicationYear 1982
publisher Stanford University Press
setIn Japan
subject Japanese economic development
Ministry of Commerce and Industry (Japan)
surface form: Ministry of International Trade and Industry

bureaucracy in Japan
industrial policy
Allied occupation of Japan
surface form: postwar Japan

state-led development
timeSpanCovered 1925–1975
usedAs university textbook
usedIn courses on Japanese politics and economy
courses on comparative political economy
courses on political economy of East Asia

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Chalmers Johnson notableWork MITI and the Japanese Miracle
MITI and the Japanese Miracle centralArgument MITI and the Japanese Miracle self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: the Ministry of International Trade and Industry played a leading role in Japan’s economic miracle
MITI and the Japanese Miracle fullTitle MITI and the Japanese Miracle self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925–1975