The Ministry: How Japan's Most Powerful Institution Endangers World Markets

by Peter Hartcher

This is an English-language examination of Japan's Ministry of Finance. Peter Hartcher explores its inner workings and seeks to reveal to the reader the impact of its growing abuses of power on internationl financial markets.

310 pages, Hardcover

Published March 1, 1998

About the author

Peter Hartcher is the political and international editor of The Sydney Morning Herald. His books include Bubble Man, The Sweet Spot and To the Bitter End. His first Quarterly Essay, Bipolar Nation, was published in 2007.