The Ministry
Subtitle: Inside Story of Japan's Ministry of Finance
Publisher: HarperCollins Business
Published: 1998
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780002558549
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.