Word: keijiro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contract to import 18,860 bbl. for his Lions Petroleum Co., which is based near Tokyo. But MITI had other ideas. The ministry had previously ruled that only crude oil, not gasoline, may enter Japan. Refining is done domestically. When word of Satoh's purchase got out, MITI Minister Keijiro Murata sent him an "advice" that bluntly warned, "Do not import that gasoline." Satoh's friendly banker warned him to heed MITI. That did it. Said Satoh: "I had no choice but to surrender...