The Economist (US), April 18th, 1998
Japan's busted bureaucrats
Yesterday's men
THE MINISTRY. By Peter Hartcher. Harvard Business School Press; 310 pages; $24.95. HarperCollins; K19.99
WITH Japan agog at the recent, but increasingly frequent, sight of Tokyo prosecutors raiding the Japanese finance ministry (the ministry in the title) and hauling off some of its inhabitants for apparently taking bribes, Peter Hartcher's timing is, perhaps, a little unfortunate. The Asia-Pacific editor of the Australian Financial Review has chosen to write about the enormous power wielded by Japan's finance ministry-to the Japanese, the Okuras...
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