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JPRS L/10166
7 December 1981
Japan Report
(FOUO 69is 1 )
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JPRS L/10166
7 December 1981
JAPAN REPORT
(FOUO 69/81)
CONTENTS
_ ECONOMIC
U. S. To Be Asked To End Nontariff Barriers
_ (JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 10 Nov 61) 1
- Government Drafts Plan for Boosting Imports
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 10 Nov 81) 2
~ Competition in Gas Booster Sales to Soviet Union �
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 27 Oct 81) 3
Oil-Producing Nations Start Ordering Refineries Again
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 27 Oct 81) 4
Gold Ingot Trust Business To Be Inaugurated (JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 3 Nov 81) 5
Briefs
Komatsu Gets USSR Order 6
August Machinery Exports 6
~ SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
I U. S. Senate Move Causes Government Concern
; (JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 17 Nov 81) 7
International Competition Over Advanced Technology Discussed
(SHUKAN TOYO KEIZAI, 19 Sep 81) 8
Auto Industry Must Prepare for. Strong Competition
(Yo$hio, Salcurai; BUgYNESS ,IAPAN,Oct 81)...................... 15
Auto Industry Adaptation to International Requirements
(Yoshihiro Ohkawara; BUSINESS JAPAN, Oct 81) 25
New Technologies, Creation of New Demand Sectors
(Yoshio Yamashita; DIAMOND'S INDUSTRIA, Nov 81) 30
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MITI To Work Out Long-Range Guidelines on Technology Develcpment
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 27 Oct 81) 39
Two Firms Produce Graphite With New Method
(J~1PAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 27 O~~t 81) 40
Toyo Kogyo Produces New Rotary Engine
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 27 Oct 81) .41
'L.ight' Producing Device Made by Government Laboratory
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 27 Oct 81) 42
NF.C Will Mass Produce 256-Kilobit Rpin Chips
(Takahide No;iaka; JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURP;AL, 27 Oct 81).......... 43
Ship Machinery Products Register Regular GrowLh
(Takumi Mogi; BUSINESS JAPAN, Oct 81) 44
;
Future of Seamless Steel Pipe Maker Sumitomo Metal Fxamined
(SHUKAN ORU TOSHI, 6 Aug 81) 48
_ Machinery Builders Team Up With European, U. S. Firms
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 3 NOV 81) 56
Toro Kogyo, NEC Cooperate in Devising Electronic Car Engine
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 3 Nov 81) 58
Transparent, High Heat Fine Ceramic Developed
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JJURNAL, 3 Nov 81) 59
NTT Claims To Be Turninq Out World's Most Integrated Logic Element
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 3 Nov 81) 60
Hitachi To Boost Output of 64K Ram Chips
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 3 Nov 81)............................ 61
NTT Devises Semiconductor Laser of 1.5 Micron Wave
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 3 Nov 81) 62
'Double-Deck' Semiconductor Produced
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 3 NOV 81) 63
Environment Indication System for Robots D2veloped
(TECHNOCRAT, Jul 81) 64
Sophisticated Machining Centers Production Discussed
- (TECHNOCRAT, Jul 81) 68
Output of 500MeV Electron Linac Reported
(TECHNOCRAT, Jul 81) 75
- Two Mitsubishi Group Firms Buy Into Hyundai Motor
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOC;R14AL, 10 Nov 81) 84
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TEC, Four Others To Participate in Libyan Plant Tender
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 10 Nov 81) 65
Atomic-Power I'lant Building Slows From Object.ions, Consumption Trend
(JAPAN E^ONOMIC JOURNAL, 10 Nov 81) $6
Machine Tool hi,:!:ers To Send Mission to U. S. Next Spring
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 10 Nov 81) 87
Investments in New Antibiotic Drug Facilities
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 10 Nov 81) 88
Fast Development of 'Fine Buildings' Discussed
(DIAMOND'S INDUSTRIA, NoV 81) 89
JDB Reports Production Facilities Aging
~ (JAPAN ECONOMIC JOliRNAL, 17 Nov 81) 92
Arms Exports to U. S. May Be Permitted
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 17 Nov 81) 93
Mitsubishi Hi To Take Over Nihon Aeroplane Manufacturing
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 17 Nov 81) 94
U. S. Approves MHI Business Plane
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 17 Nov 81) 95
- Industrial Machine Orders Surge
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 17 Nov 81)............................ 96
Fujitsu Produces High Precision Assembly Robot
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 17 Nov 61) 97
Polydiacetyl Produced in Crystal Form
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 17 Nov 81) 98
New Circuit Element Gives Hope for Optical Computer
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 17 NOV 81) 99
Phatosensitive Resin Reacts to Laser Ray
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 17 Nov 81) 100
Briefs
- Yamazaki Machinery Unmanned Factory 101
Mitsubishi Electric Solar Cell .101
Turbo-Charger Technology Export 101
Silicon Absorption 102
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U.S. TO BE ASKED TO END NONTARIFF BARRIERS
Tokyo JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL in English Vol 19 No 980, 10 Nov 81 pp 1, 4
[Text]
While the U.S. up to this time
has been the one urging Japan
to do away with so-called non-
tariff barriers, Japan now is
going to submit a 14-point
request asking the U.S. to do
some removing on its own.
This was decided by the
Japanese Government last
week, and its "counter-de-
mand" will list such as the fol-
:owing points as non-tariff bar-
riers: 1) administration of its
trade system, such as its anti-
dumping checkups; 2) restric-
tion in issuance of visas to
Japanese company personnel;
3) the unitary tax system, such
as practiced by the State of
California.
So far, it has been the U.S.
that has strongly done the criti-
cizin~.:l~