JPRS ID: 9857 JAPAN REPORT

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20 July 1981
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JPRS L/9857
20 July 1981
JAPAN REPORT
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CONTENTS
ECONOMIC
Government Drafts Oil Money Recycling Concept
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAI~, 23 Jun 81) 1
Auto Export Quota Angers Sr~all Carmakers '
(DAILY YOMIURI, 30 Jun 81) 2
Car Exports Face 60 Percent Import Control Prospect
(F~zmi.o Tateiwa; JAPAN ECUNOMIC JOURNAL, 23 Jun 81) 1~
SCIE[~1CE AND TECHNOI,OGY
World Economy and Technological Innovation ~verviewed
(DAILY YUMIURI, various dates) 6
Qptical Fiber Corrununication Age Arrives
(Shunichi Takebe; ASAHI EVENING NEWS, 23 Jun 81) 19
Top Six F~.rms Strategies in Biotechnology Rush Reviewed
(SHUKAN TOYO KEIZAI, 2-9 May 81) ~ 21
Robot Production Up 85 Percent
(JAPAN ECONONiIC JOURNAL, 23 Jun 81) !~0
Progress in Robot Industry Expoxt Situation Analyzed
(NIHON KOGYO SHIMBUN, various dates) j~2
1980's Dubbed f2nd Information Revolution Era~
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 23 Jun 81) 48
Computer Export by Six Makers to Tap ~�100 Billion
(JAPAN ECONONIIC JOURNAL, 23 Jun 81) 1~9
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NTT Makes Swift, Super Precision Electron Beam Exposure System
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Numerical Control Device 51
Powerful Laser Microscope 51
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ECONOMIC
GOV~RNMENT DRAFTS OIL MONEY RECYCLING CONCEPT
Tokyo JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL in English Vol 19, No 960, 23 Jun 81 pp 1,3
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The Government has worked swelling from the worsening of have a large amount of oil
out an "oil money recycling ..#l~eir current payments ~ccount money from lhe oil-producing
concept" of its own for helping with the elevatlon ot ctttde oa ~~tries' investment in Japan.
the non oi1-developing nations prices. . ~ The concept thus anticipates
extricate themselves from the At the end of 1980, theii