Mighty MITI, as METI's forerunner, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, used to be known, will ride forth again.
日本通产省，经济产业省的前身，过去被称为国际贸易工业部，将重出江湖。
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"Probably I would have been even more successful had we not had MITI," Soichiro Honda, the company's founder, said of his battles with the ministry.
“要不是通产省的话，我们会更成功”，本田宗一郎，本田的创始人，这么总结他与通产省的斗争。
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Japan's MITI once opposed carmakers' plans to export and tried to stop Honda expanding from motorbikes into cars because it didn't want another company in the industry.