date:Aug 15, 2013
parate Ministry of Commerce (商工省 Shōkō-shō?), and the ministry was renamed the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (農林省 Nōrin-shō?). The ministry was also given responsibility for oversight of the Factory Act of 1903, which provided regulations for work hours and worker safety in both industrial and agricultural industries.
From 1943 to 1945, when the Ministry of Commerce was abolished due to the nationalization of Japanese industry for the war effort, parts of that ministry reverte