JULY 1983

ANTIMONOPOLY LAW & INDUSTRIAL POLICY

Industrial Policy Discussions Continue

Technopolis Activities

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

Bond Issuing Standards

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

Dumping Suit - Ferralloys

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

Alaskan Oil to Japan

Steel Talks

US to Limit Specialty Steel Imports

US Auto Imports

Machine Tools and Robots

Japan Opposes Controls on Technology Flows to Soviets?

US Attitude Towards Japan Hardening

Sears World Trade Subsidiary Opens Office In Tokyo

IBM - Hitachi Talks Continue - Software Copyright

Semiconductors