DECEMBER 1982
ANTIMONOPOLY LAW & INDUSTRIAL POLICY
Fair Trade Commission Not What it Seems
New Structurally Recessed Industries Law Debate Reaching Crescendo
Japanese Shipbuilders to Seek Cartel
Fair Trade Commission Hits Taxi Companies
Gasoline Stands to Seek Cartel
Ministry of Construction to Limit Entry
New Method to Block Large Retailers
FTC to Study Antimonopoly Exemption Laws
Metro Tokyo Depressed Companies Low Interest Financings Oversubscribed
Ethylene Capacity Cut Proposal
Restructuring Petrochemical Industry
ENVIRONMENT
Nuclear Reactor Hearing Protest
FINANCE
Development Bank Financing For Foreign Capital Firms
City Banks Seek Three Year Time Deposits
Osaka Gold Trader Sued for Fraud
Foreign Issues of Japanese Government Bonds
Insurance Firm Ends Discrimination
Merrill Lunch Securities Firm Takeover?
US SEC Hits Closed Japanese Finance Markets
PHARMACEUTICALS & PRODUCT LIABILITY
Standard Drug Price List Prices Reduced by 4.9%
Falsified Drug Test Data - Chemiphar Closed Down
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Software Protected by Copyright Law
Microsoft Files Copyright Suit
LABOR
Employment Subsidies - Employment Insurance Law
Tokyo Employment Subsidy Cases Up
LAND LAW
Tokyo Metro Government to Promote Agricultural Land
MARINE
Japan - Soviet Fishing Negotiations Settled
Japanese Fishing Rates to be Raised
TAX
Tax - Entertainment and Charitable Donations
Small & Medium Enterprises - Investment Tax Deduction Proposal
Withholding Tax Constitutional
Tax - In Company Meals are Entertainment Expenses?
MOF to Examine Revision of Unequal Taxes
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Registration of Telecommunications & Database Firms
Posts Ministry to Counter US Database Superiority
TRADE
Export Insurance Premiums Raised
New Appliance Testing Standards
Weaving Firms Demand Cut in Imports
Japan Readying Dumping Provisions
US - Japan High Technology Competition Heating Up
Confectionary Makers Seek Compensatory Protection
Japan to Limit Exports of Machine Tools
Prime Minister Seeks Market Opening Measures
Ferroalloy Industry to File Dumping Suit
MITI Minister "There Are Industries It Is Necessary to Protect"
Japanese to Show Ways to Handle Protectionists - French VCR Restrictions
EC VCR Makers Filing Dumping Suit Against Japanese Makers
France to Hit Japanese Machine Tools as Well?
French Hit Nude Photo Censorship
EC Duties Double on Digital Audio Discs - CD Players
Western Liquor Parallel Imports Charged - Customs Duties Law
Full Scale GATT Investigation - EC Pressure Building on Japan
Japanese Farm Barriers Crumbling
US-Japan Perception Gap - Paper Tiger Americans
Keidanren Wants Agricultural Liberalization
Japan Pledges Trade Concessions
Harley-Davidson to Go Under? Motorcycles
Local Content Bill - Automobile Trade
Japanese Seek to Ban Cheap Steel Imports
US Steel US Steel Industry Seeks Trade Relief
Dumping- New Japan International Trade Commission to Utilize Safeguard Steps
Japan Delays Signing Law of the Sea Agreement
Japan's Antidumping Regulations
MISCELLANEOUS
New Japan Hotel Fire - Criminal Negligence?
Immigration - Re-Entry Permit Denied - Criminal Liability?
State Tort Liability Law - Flood Damage - State to 1.4 Billion yen
Traffic Law Demo Control Constitutional
False Information Cause for Damages
Understaffed Hospital Found Negligent, to Pay 45 Million yen