On the occasion of the Institute’s 50th anniversary, when we look back at the past 50 years of Japan’s economy, we really have experienced a diversity of situations. Around the time of the Korean War, I was in Osaka and witnessed the reconstruction of the textile industry and the economic boom supported by the special procurements occasioned by that war.
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