JULY 1983
ANTIMONOPOLY LAW & INDUSTRIAL POLICY
Industrial Policy Discussions Continue
High Technology Promotion Measures
High Technology Foreign Companies Rapidly Moving Into Japan
Semicondustors and Computers - Pearl Harbor?
Structurally Recessed Industries Basic Resusciation Measures
FINANCE
Shareholders Meetings - Supreme Court Finds That Invalidates Meeting
Sokaiya vs. Companies - Sokaiya Suffer Big Losses But Not Out of the Game
Further Steps Taken on Loan Sharks - Sarakin
Dividend Policies - Return of Premium
New Samurai Bond Issuing Standards
Internationalization of Tokyo's Financial Markets
Foreign Stock Purchases and Share Investment Standards
Takeovers - Foreigners Taking over Japanese Corporations - A New Stage in Capital Liberalization
LEGAL PROCEDURE
Supreme Court Upholds Foreign Court Verdicts
TAX
Tax Series (Continued) Depreciation
TRADE
Another Trade Package Going Into Effect
Foreign Automakers not Satisfied with Import Improvements
Preferential Tariff Treatment for Developing Countries
Increased Agricultural Imports from ASEAN?
While Clamping Down on Textile Imports - Exports Grow Remarkably
Japanese Distribution Channels, Business Customs are NTBs
US - Japan Custom Duties Talks
Kyushu Group Seeks Foreign Firms
Foreign Chocolate Makers Rush to Take Advantange of Lower Tariffs
World Import Mart Going Out of Business?
Flexible Applicaation of Export Insurance
Foreign tobacco Firms Angered on Japan's Moves
US Imposes 45% Tariff on Imported Motorcycles
US-Japan Agricultural Talks Again
New Zealand Seeks More Dairy Imports
US to Limit Specialty Steel Imports
Japan Opposes Controls on Technology Flows to Soviets?
US Attitude Towards Japan Hardening
Sears World Trade Subsidiary Opens Office In Tokyo