Mighty MITI, as METI's forerunner, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, used to be known, will ride forth again.

日本通产省，经济产业省的前身，过去被称为国际贸易工业部，将重出江湖。

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"Probably I would have been even more successful had we not had MITI," Soichiro Honda, the company's founder, said of his battles with the ministry.

“要不是通产省的话，我们会更成功”，本田宗一郎，本田的创始人，这么总结他与通产省的斗争。

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Japan's MITI once opposed carmakers' plans to export and tried to stop Honda expanding from motorbikes into cars because it didn't want another company in the industry.

日本通产省曾反对汽车制造商的出口计划，并且试图阻止本田从机动车扩展至轿车领域，这是因为它不想让这个行业出现另一个公司。

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Not surprisingly, the Japanese Ministry of Trade and Industry (MITI) was a key player in the FS-X negotiations.

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MITI, about half of Japan's small companies think of themselves as subcontractors to bigger ones, a relationship which must expose them to similar pressures.

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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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