SEPTEMBER 1983
ANTIMONOPOLY LAW & INDUSTRIAL POLICY
FTC Busts Soda Ash Import Cartel
FTC to Hold Hearings on Suspicion of Synthetic Rubber
"Made in Japan" Emphasis for Nuclear Reactors
Slowdown in the Project to Develop the Technologies for Next Generation of Industries
US Justice Department to Investigate 8 MM Standardization
Department Stores and Supermarkets
Antimonopoly Law Revision Movement Stalled
Joint High Technology Metals Subsidized Research Activities
Lower Japan Development Bank Interest Rates
Rare Metals Strategic Stockpile
Aircraft Industry - Industrial Policy
Japan Stalling on Korean Technology Transfer
AVIATION
Continental Airlines Seeks CAB Sanctions
New Philippine Airlines Routes
FINANCE
Mitsubishi Bank Makes Largest Japanese Acquisition of US Bank
Stock Exchange Listing Requirements
National Government Bond Sales
Consumer Finance - Loan Sharks (Sarakin)
Mitsubishi Bank Launches High Yielding Cash Management Account
Commodities and Futures Markets
Banks Upping Corporate Banking Services
Merck & Co. Buys Control of Banyu Pharmaceutical Col
Overseas Debt Reserve to be Made Tax Free
Certificates of Deposit and Commercial Paper
Certificates of Deposit and Commercial Paper
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Record Rentals, Computer Software Copying and Copyright
IBM-Hitachi Industrial Espionage
Arbitrary Use of Name and Photograph
Three Japanese Indicted on Video Game Parts Imports
LABOR
Sex Discrimination - Labor Law
"Good Employer" Mark of Approval
Employees Can Choose Their Own Doctors
Health and Welfare Pensions Top 7 Trillion yen
TAX
Tax Revisions Concerning Reserves
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
TRADE
Export Promotion Measures to be Reduced
Japanese to Replace US Lobbyists with Japanese
Trade Statistics - Japan Has Record Breaking Trade Surplus
US Finds Japanese Dumping Textiles
Machine Tool Orders in August 1983
Action to be Taken Against Pakistan Cotton Imports
Silk Stabilization System Under Review
Ec Hits Japan Chemical Firms with Dumping Duty
Pork Imports From Denmark to Begin Again?
British Want More Open Japanese Markets
France Hits BL-Honda Made Autos
Nissan Still Mulling Advance into the UK
Canada to Drop Local Contents Effort?
Taiwan Controls Japanese Car Imports
Philippine Government Hits Japanese Auto Cartel
MISCELLANEOUS
Alien Fingerprinting Arrests Made