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The Skill at Disguising

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An In-depth Research of the Bureaucracy (Kanryou Dai Kenkyuu) by Tetsuo Ebato was published in 1990. Ebato graduated with a degree in economics from Tokyo University before entering Mitsui Bank. He left the company to become a freelance writer. His book regards the Defense Agency, the Supreme Court, the former Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and MITI.

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  1. T. Ebato, Kanryo Dai-Kenkyu (In-depth Research of the Bureaucracy) (Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 1990), pp. 234–41.

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Carpenter, S. (2015). The Skill at Disguising. In: Japan Inc. on the Brink. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137469441_13

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