JANUARY 1986

FINANCE

Corporate Takeovers - Minebea

Investment Advisors Law & Foreign Banks

Bank Financial Structures

Tax Free Deposits

Securiies & Bankruptcy Fraud - Aiden Co.

Financial Futures

National Government Bonds

Tokkin - Designated Monetary Trusts

Bankers Acceptance Market

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Patent Information English

Japanese Firms Rank High in US Patents

IBM vs. Fujitsu - Software Copyright

Computer Software Protection

Disk Drives - Tandon Loses One

Semiconductor Design Registrations

Foreigners to Participate in Patent System

Counterfeit Goods

Japanese Firms in Patent Case at the US ITC

TRADE

Japan Seeks Textile Import Restraints

US-Japan Uranium Agreement

Alaskan Oil Exports to Japan

Construction Equipment

Metallic Baseball Bats

Distribution Sector Blocks Imports

Video Tape Recorders

Counterfeit Goods

Dumping - Motors, Typewriters and Machine Tools

Bosporus Bridge

Europeans Dependent on Japanese Parts

EC Wants Japanese Import Targets

Forest Goods

Agriculture - Chinese Threats Believed, Americans -Wolf Wolf

Aluminum

Steel

Motorcycles

Automobiles

Tobacco Trade

Wine - Imports Still Difficult Despite Scandalous Domestic Firms

Mass Media Reporting to be Opened to Foreigners

Australians Ask Japanese Consideration

Rice Imports for Foreigners Also Banned

Tariff Reductions to be Accelerated

Computer Tariffs

Standards and Certufucatuibs - MITI Worried

Domestid Demand Expansion

Private Sector Import Efforts

Airplane Import Promotion Measures

Non-Performing Trade Packages

Other Trade Improvement Measures

Foriegn Aid - Fit to be Tied

US-Japan Trade

US Finds Japanese Dumping -Automobile Phones, Oil Rigs

The Yen - Exports May Fall, but Imports May Also

Trade Statistics, Japan Grows, America Slows