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annual "white paper" on computers says.
As of the end of September 1卿,there were 79,281computers reported inoperaWon， valued at Y3,850.8 bIIHon (17.5 bi川on).
Large "Si zed machines accounted for 3.9 percent化 number and 59.2 percent in value.
Japan's computer technolo* gies have made prodigious strides, bringing the nation to the threshold of a fully*fledged "era of informaUon-oriented society," acicordinfl to ，h8 rか port, Issued by the independent Japan咖rmat ion Processing Development Center.
But it says Japan's com-puteiization drive is notwはtv I out problems, citing increasing crimes that capitalize on banks' computer systems and the possible impact of increas* ed use of microcomputers on employment.
The stepped-up computerization, although adding to the amenities of nations I life ， is at the same time raising a number of problems requiring urgent (solution, such as disdosure of information of a public nature and protection of piivacy, け幼ys.
The report also touched on a growing demand In the private sector for the liberalization of the use of communication lines In this country, now subject to strict controls by the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (NTT).
Private businesses are press* ing for the libera Hz at ion, sayingはis vけal for the development of computerized data processing — a must for drastic stream I ing of corporate management.
The report endorses the Importance of the liberalization, saying communication lines
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The success of corporate managementw川be greatly Influenced by thesklはof using thoseけnes, the report added.
Rob6t stabs worker in Jpn. factory
TOKYO - A 37-year-old factory maintenance worker was stabbed to death by a robot that suddenly started up and p,nnecf Wmaga'nst an other machine, a government report said recently.
It was the fけさt recorded fata"ty blamed on one of the abbut 70，卿robots in use in Japanese Industrial plants.
The accident occurred at the Kawasaki Heavy In dust, ries in Tokyo last July, but けwds kept secret Im川recently, a付er the Investigation was completed.
The investigators said the victim, KeゅUrada, stepped across a safety barrier and inadvertently started the robot, whose arm stabbed him in the back.
The report concluded that Urada was guilty ofcareless-ness but also said safety measures In the p，ant were inadequate, said Hiroshi Go* to, chief of the local labor standards bureau.
"There's been a tendency to put aside the regulations in the labor standards law wはh these new machines,', an officほl at the faborstaiv dards bureau in the western province of Hyogo said.
"The unfammarはy of the workersaほo contributed to the accident."
Urada apparently hはthe on-swけch accidentally after leaping over a chain fence built around the robot that wasほbelled "Off Limits", of*
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Forさign trade o州ciaぉsay Japan musropenけs doors to foreignねおducts. T he Jap;a-nesさ、きy outsWers just have not trまhard enough to crack lucrative and highly com-petはive Japanese marゆt.
In early December, d U.S. trade mission tdid the Japa-nese thめhe NTBs must be removed "quickly io avoid a poi4t)carreactIon In the Unit: ed States." Deputy U.S. trade representative David MacDo-nald said: "I tried to explain to the Japanese the great frustration of American businessmen int〜ing to sell their maiiuf3Ctured products in Jき-panノ'
TheUnはed States has no illusions thatけs expected $18七i川on trade deficけwけh Japan this year can be eliminated If trade barriers are removed, said a U.S. official, who didn't want to be named, "but the anti-import bias is a fundamental problem that per-vades the Japanese system."
An example of the Japanese attけude 、s the Japan Lawn Tennis Association rule that no foreign-made balls are a I翁owed Indomestic tournaments.
Oftenけis just the network of regulations — theysome-times exasperate Japanese producers, too — that stops the foreign trader right at the docks. For example:
參The Ministry of Interna, t ion a I Trade and Industry refuses to accept foreign safety tests, which means more tests must be conducted in Ja"an， addinii to the cost and making the foreign brandsless competitive.
參Cosmetic makers must face sはmonths' testing on any change, no matter how slight, in l【pstick pigment. "The Japanese face the same problem, soけ's not really a trade barrier. Butけ's not economicaHy f eas lbはto intro* duce new ingredlen，s,，， said F. Langhammer, head of the Japan office of the €stee Lauder cosmetics company*
• The Tokyo Metropolitan Government rejected a rust retardatkm paint developed by a: smaH Brけほh company because ，aw req咖s "s agent fn Japan to have a univers"y* trained engineer or architect on sta".-
TOKYO ， Nearly、70 per. cent of、 the 一 Japanese fear the Increasing use of Industrial robots wmlead to higher unemployment, anewspaper survey shows.
Of 3,000 people aged over 20 1 r)terviewed by the Malni-chi news paper last mo nth, 67 percent f eared In ere的ed unemployment would be caused by robots and office automation while23 percent expected to see no change.
However, the survey revealed 50 percent of thoseねking part in the poll felt that the introduction of robots was desirable compared with 44 percent who considered ，helr arrival undesirable.
Housewives were asked if飾y would op pose their husbands working at home through television telephones 3nd 66 percent were op. posed to the move, against 30 percent who said they would welcomeけ.
Opinions as to whether the
computerized society would be easier, more ciけflcuけto Hve in or詣【e changed were equally divided among all three opinions.
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