NOVEMBER 1982
ANTIMONOPOLY LAW & INDUSTRIAL POLICY
FTC to Investigate Book Store Association
Shipbuilders Considering Cartel
Construction Ministry to Seek Exemption for Construction Industry
FTC Issues Report Criticizing Antirecession Measures
Outline of Report on Industrial Adjustment in the Age of Low Growth
MITI to Include Import Promotion to Please Foreigners - Structurally Recessed Industries
Cement Industry to Seek Depression Cartel
Structurally Recessed Industries Law - Specifics Growing
Aluminum Refiners Further Deteriorating
National Land Agency to Promote High Technology
Export - Import Bank to Promote Robot Exports?
Development Bank to Provide Low Interest Financing for 5th Generation Computer Project
MITI to Assist in Funding High Technology Fields by Foreign Companies
MITI Seeks New Industrial Policy Law
Depression Cartel Approved for Ethylene Industry
Ethylene Industry Restructures
Shipbuilders Considering Cartel
AVIATION
Fair Trade Commission to Investigate Airline Tickets
Airlines Ordered to Pay Landing Fees
Continental Airlines Hooks Up With JAL
ENERGY
Oil Refining Capacity to be Reduced?
Subsidies for Oil Storage to be Upped.
Simplification of Nuclear Power Hearings
ENVIRONMENT
Minamata Pollution Case - High Court Supports Finding of Criminal Neglifence
Osaka Bans Karaoke Noise Pollution
FINANCE
Venture Capital In Japan - Special Feature
First Foreign Casualty Insurance Firm Approved
Real Estate Executive Arrested for Running Unlicensed Bank
Police Arrest Bank Executives for Breach of Trust
Overseas Bond Issue Standards Eased
Bankers Present Plan to Ease Nonsecured Domestic Bond Issues
Interest Rates on 3 Month Deposits to be Raised?
Rubber, Fiber and Gold Exchanges to Merge
Banks Authorized to Make Door to Door Government Bond Sales
Share Issuing Practices to be Improved
Determining Latent Growth Potential of a Share in Japan
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Education Ministry fo Subsidize Nobel Level Scientific Research
LABOR
Employment Subsidies Eligible Industries up by 10
LEGAL PROFESSION
Japan Federation of Bar Associations Dilatory Tactics
MARINE
Japan Jubilant at Failure of US Deep Sea Mining Negotiations
Japanese to Brave Majority and Reject Whaling Moratorium
PHARMACEUTICALS & PRODUCT LIABILITY
First Damages in Compulsory Vaccinations
TAX
94.6% of Companies Evading Taxes
Tax Agency Approves CPA's Method of Handling Reserves
MITI Studying Changing Depreciation Term - Tax
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
MITI Pushing Computer Crime Prevention Law
US Dissatisfied with Foreign Telecommunications Procurement
Revised Telecommunications Law Goes into Effect
TRADE
Tobacco Trade Talks - Japanese Fogging the Issues
High Technology Negotiations US Negotiators Create Technological Munich in Our Times
Japan to Join US in Pressing for Free Trade in Services
Employment Subsidies - American Cement Makers File Dumping Suit Against Japan
American Shoemakers File Trade Suit
America Files Suit Against Japan on GATT over Leather Products
"Buy Japanese" in Advertising Too?
US-Japan November 1982 Trade Talks
Cash Fed Politicians Fatten on Beef Trade Restrictions
US-Japan Agriculture Trade Negotiations - Do Unto Others?
Australia -Japan Beef Trade Negotiations End in Deadlock
Japanese Trade PR Counter-Productive?
US Small Truck Tariffs to Affect Japan's Auto Voluntary Export Controls
MITI Fights Against Protectionism - Abroad That is.
Japan Machinery Export Association Supports Free Trade
US Steel Industry - Forging Defensive Armor
EC-Japan Trade Negotiations Standoff - France Defends VCRs at Poitiers
Public Corporations Law Revision - Public Corporations to Export Technology
Japan to Meet OECD Good Laboratory Policy?
Japan to Take Additional Market Opening Measures If US Quits Beefing on Smoking, Oranges, etc.
Oil - Alaska Gas Sales to Japan
Sears to Advance as General Trading Company
Korean-American Trading Company
MISCELLANEOUS