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The Japan External Trade Organization: The Scent of a Ministry

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JETRO is a case of a special corporation that was established originally to function as a promoter of Japanese small business exports but which has come to function as a vehicle that increases the territory, and consequently, the power, of the establishing ministry.

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Notes

  1. C. Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle (Stanford University Press, 1982), pp. 231–2.

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Carpenter, S. (2003). The Japan External Trade Organization: The Scent of a Ministry. In: Special Corporations and the Bureaucracy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230508781_7

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