HARTCHER Peter <br/><br/>
The ministry:  how Japan's most powerful institution endangers world markets 

 - Boston:  Harvard Business School Press,  1998 
 - 310p. 
<br/><br/> The first account in English of Japan's Ministry of Finance, the Okurasho, which is the most powerful and least scrutinized ministry in Japan. Documents how the Ministry is acting increasingly from self-interest and poses a threat to both world financial markets and economic growth. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0875847854 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>ECONOMIC POLICY<br/>JAPAN<br/>PUBLIC FINANCE