Not surprisingly, the Japanese Ministry of Trade and Industry (MITI) was a key player in the FS-X negotiations.
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Last month, Japan's ministry of trade and industry announced a set of safety guidelines for home and office robots.
Singapore's economy is expected to contract between 2 and 5 percent this year, the Ministry of Trade and Industry said last month.
On Monday, the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) forecast growth of between 8% and 9% for the whole year, putting Singapore on a par with China, the fastest growing economy in Asia.
However, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the sector expanded by an annualised rate of 3.1% in the October to December period, compared with the previous three months.
Hassan Radmard, head of trade development at the Ministry of Trade and Industry, said Monday that the increase in prices of poultry and dairy products was a result of difficulties in buying animal feed, transporting goods from ports and completing financial transactions because of sanctions, official student news agency ISNA reported.
An extraordinary parliamentary session will then be called for September, ostensibly to pass a bunch of job-creation and company-restructuring proposals that the Ministry of International Trade and Industry is beavering away on.
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JCO, for example, was a straggler kept alive by Japan's powerful nuclear lobby and its friends at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
They have come a long way from the not-too-distant days when one of their biggest tasks was to deliver myriad production data to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry on the last business day of each month.
The head of the powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) is one of a new generation of Japanese politicians less influenced by Japan's World War II defeat and less indebted to the U.S. in the post-war years.
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These included: the Ministry of Culture, the State Economic and Trade Commission, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Industry and IT, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, the General Administration of Customs and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce.
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To this end, Mr Yanagisawa has joined hands with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry said that industrial production fell 1.7% from the previous month.
The body, a Zhu favorite, will coordinate the country's industrial development, somewhat like Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
Since 1991, according to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Japan has destroyed more businesses than it has created.
Tokyo's Economic Planning Agency is projecting fiscal 1999 growth of 0.5%, resisting pressure from the powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry for a higher forecast.
More worrying still, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry has warned makers of 24-hour baths, which keep supposedly purified water hot all day, that their products may harbour Legionnaires' disease.
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Some reports say that the Prime Minister has overruled Robin Cook and Clare Short, the International Development Secretary, in favour of the Ministry of Defence and the Department of Trade and Industry.
Yoshikai Masanori, deputy director general of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, warned that there could be capital flight from economies that were seen as not doing enough to overcome the problem.
They still recall how a hard-nosed Hashimoto, as head of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in 1995, skillfully upstaged U.S. trade representative Mickey Kantor in televised talks over the thorny issue of trade in auto parts.
Ota Fusae, 48, a former official at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, defeated two major rivals in a gubernatorial election in Osaka Prefecture to become the country's first female prefectural governor, and one of the youngest, too.
The main contributors to the drop in output were electronic parts and devices, information and communication electronics equipment and chemicals, said the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
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The number of foreigners who have completed their studies in Japan is pitifully low compared with other advanced economies: 0.7% of the total, compared with 29% in Australia, 16% in Britain and 13% in America, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).
Another of Sir Richard's recommendations was that the decision on export licences should not be left to a kind of "wrangling" between the Foreign Office, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Defence.
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Sales rose 2.5% compared with a year earlier, the biggest rise since August 2010, said the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
The figures from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry also showed that retail sales in February rose 1.6% from the previous month.
An official of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry briefing reporters said the forecasts "show companies' cautious stance" and indicate a "pause in recovery" in coming months.
Mr. Nishiyama, whose Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry regulates Tepco, pointed out that the company has had serious challenges, including major quakes spaced less than four years apart.
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