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Demonstrators at the University of Tokyo in June 1968: Universities in Japan and around the world were rocked by protests in the 1960s.

Early years at the Ministry of Finance: Haruhiko Kuroda (6)

Kuroda joins Finance Ministry as Japan is rocked by social change

In April 1967, I joined the Ministry of Finance and was assigned to the secretarial division.

My main job was to take care of the ministry staff's overseas business trips. I would obtain approval from officials, up to the ministers themselves, obtain forms and certificates from the accounting section, and attach an official passport from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I was in charge of all overseas trips for the main ministry, the local finance bureaus and customs officials, including requesting and managing their budgets.

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