Hefty extra budgets leave Japan’s industry ministry bloated

'Urgency' of supplementary spending lost in budget integration push Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is pushing to integrate Japan's big supplementary budgets into the initial budget. (Photo by Akitoshi Sugiura) TOKYO — In his 1975 novel, "Summer of the Bureaucrats," Saburo Shiroyama wrote of Japan's old Ministry of International Trade and Industry that its budget was a degree of magnitude smaller than those of other ministries because it mainly handled work such as administrative guidance that did not require big spending.

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