NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1983
AVIATION
Air Freight - CargoLux Rejected
FINANCE
Shareholders Rights - Shareholders Meetings -Nothing Has Changed
Restrictions on Foreign Investment in Japanese Shares to be Eased
The Yen - Restraints on Foreign Securities Purchases
California Banking and Mitsubishi Bank
Commercial Paper and Certificates of Deposit
Tax Free Accounts - Massive Tax Evasion - Green Cards
New Stock Market Listing Standards
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
IBM - Hitachi - Industrial Espionage - Software Copyright
MITI to Open Door to Nationally Held Patents to Foreigners
Patent Registration Fees Going Up
Patents and Utility Designs - Domestic Priority System
First IBM Hitachi Suit Settled
Microwave Equipment Patent Suits
Copyright - Snoopy and Charley Brown Violated by Japanese
Copyright Law - Record, Video and Software Protection
Computer Software Protection Legislation
LEGAL PROFESSION
Foreign Lawyers to be Permitted to Operate in Japan
PHARMACEUTICALS
When Foreign Food Additives OK'd Warnings Labels Required
Genetic Engineering Guidelines
Pharmaceuticals Safety Testing - Industrial Espionage
Pharmaceuticals Trading Company President Arrested
Longer Term Patent Sought for Pharmaceuticals
Product Liability - Doctors and Pharmaceuticals Firms Responsible for Muscle Disease
Medical Insurance Subsidies to be Slashed
TAX
Tax Free Accounts - Massive Tax Evasion - Green Card
Tax Revisions - Reduced Asset Value (Asshuku) - Land Transfers - Overseas Technology Agreements
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Fujitsu Gets Contract for Optical Fiber
Citizen Band Radio Sets Booming
Other Hitech US-Japan Disputes
Domestic Telephone Rates Going Down
Electric Telecommunications Business Law - Value Added Networks
Market for Basic Telephones to be Opened
TRADE
Real Estate Purchases by Foreigners to be Totally Liberalized
Bigger US Trade Deficit Means Fewer US Jobs
Japanese Coal Imports from the USA
Canada Investigates Hydraulic Pump Dumping
Canadian Trade Minister Meets with Chairman of Japanese Automobile Industry Association
Japanese Auto Investment in the UK
EC's Digital Audio Disc Tariffs - CDs
EC Investigating Japanese Electronic Scale Dumping Charges