THE MINISTRY
Subtitle: THE INSIDE STORY OF JAPAN\'S MINISTRY OF FINANCE
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS BUSINESS
Published: 1999
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780006388791
First sentence: Japan's Ministry of Finance is headquartered in central Tokyo in a gray-tiled, six-story structure with all the architectural elegance of a prison block and the ambience of a Depression-era courthouse.