TY - BOOK AU - HARTCHER Peter TI - The ministry: how Japan's most powerful institution endangers world markets SN - 0875847854 (hbk.) PY - 1998/// CY - Boston PB - Harvard Business School Press KW - ECONOMIC POLICY KW - JAPAN KW - PUBLIC FINANCE N2 - 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 ER -