JUNE 1984

ANTIMONOPOLY LAW & INDUSTRIAL POLICY

Foreign Satellites Ok'd

Technopolis Designations

Aircraft Industry

High Tech Venture Capital

FTC Warns Rice Retailers

Milk Sales to be Controlled

Basic Materials Industries - Structurally Recessed Industries Law

Water Purification Containers Antirecession Cartel

Robots

Biotechnology

Historical Note -- US Following in Steps of Britain?

Computers

Laser Safety Guidelines

Oil Industry Reorganization

Semiconductors

US Court Jurisdiction to be Challenged

AVIATION

United and Northwest Hit by CAB

US Seeks Competition - Aviation

Fly Japanese

ANA Charters

FINANCE

First Deregulation - Trust Banks - Bankers Acceptance

Trust Banking

Foreign Banks in Osaka

Foreign Yen Loans

Banker Imprisoned for Breach of Fiduciary Duty

New Pricing Method for New Stock Listings

Electronic Banking

Credit Sales Law

Bank Share Trading

Foreign Securities Firm Entry to "Deliberated" Upon

Negotiated Brokerage Fees

Sokaiya Aim at IBM & GM

New Consumer Investment Accounts

Sarakin

Banker's Acceptance Market

Capital Markets Liberalization

National Government Bonds

Commodities Exchange

Swap Transactions Approved

Short Term Money Market Buying Operations Revised

LABOR

Equal Employment Rights for Women?

LEGAL PROFESSION

Legal Profession to be Opened to Foreigners

Attorneys Fees Raised

Litigation Tax

TRADE

Upping Dumping Cases Against Japanese Firms - Raising Tariffs on High Technology

Japan Hits Digital Audio Disc Tariffs

Market Opening Package

Japanese Government Takes Trade Offensive

EC on New Trade Package

EC Observers OK for Manufactured Imports Council

"Superior Foreign Product Mark?"

Japan Tentatively Agrees to GATT Ruling on Leather Quotas

Auto Trade

The Unreported American Retaliation on Japan

Photographic Film Dumping

Hydraulic Shovel Export Floor Price Cartel

Export Promotion Measures

Wine & Paper Tariffs Cut Minimally

Tobacco Imports

US Suspends GATT Case on Agricultural Products

Australia - Japan Agricultural Talks

Phantom Agricultural Importers Closed Down

Coal Trade

Oil Products - Exports OK, Imports NO

Amorphous Alloys

Japanese Firms Drop Petition for Injunction on Monosodium Glutamate Imports

Textile Trade

Machine Tools

Tariffs on 9 Aircraft Parts to be Dropped

Computers and Semiconductors

Import and Direct Investment Financing

Fraudulent Exporter Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison

Ferrosilicon Dumping Suit

Trade Statistics

Small Firm Introduction Service