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Consumers have long been able to buy inexpensive point-and-shoot cameras, but the Maxxum was the first fully automated single-lens reflex product to enable people to take high-quality 35-mm pictures with high-technology ease. Now the year-old Maxxum is attracting rivals. Last week Nippon Kogaku (est. fiscal-1985 sales: $940 million), the maker of Nikon, became the first firm to announce a comparable alternative to Minolta's pioneering model. Like the Maxxum, the Nikon N2020 will use two microchips and a tiny motor inside the camera to focus automatically. The camera, which will be priced...
...computer that cracked the Night Stalker case was designed by the Nippon Electric Co. to overcome these deficiencies. It combines high-speed, custom- made silicon chips with a new technique for analyzing points of minutiae. Besides plotting each point, the computer also counts the number of ridge lines between that point and its four nearest neighbors. This provides a fairly good measure of the relative position of minutiae points; if two minutiae taken from a print in the police files are separated by eight ridge lines, chances are they will be separated by the same number of lines...
Government Procurement Policies. Governments are among the biggest customers | in world trade, and they almost always favor the home team. Westerners have long complained that Japan's state-owned Nippon Telephone and Telegraph bought relatively little equipment from foreign firms. Now that two-thirds of NTT is being sold to private investors, the government has pledged that outsiders will be able to sell more products to the company. Last week NTT announced its first major cooperative agreement with a U.S. corporation: a joint venture with IBM to build a complex computer network in Japan...
...only $194 million. Japan made some moves last week that could help close that gap. The government announced that it would consider an application from Hughes Aircraft to sell communications satellites to Japan in a joint venture with two Japanese companies. The deal could be worth $400 million. Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, which is now being converted from a government monopoly to a private company, signed a new contract to buy 10,000 telephones from ITT. Nonetheless, many American telecommunications executives considered these gestures to be mere tokens. Whenever Japan unveils a program to boost imports, many foreign businessmen...
Lawmakers are particularly eager to pry open Japan's $20 billion telecommunications market. In the past two months, Administration officials have stepped up negotiations with Tokyo to win greater access to that market. The talks have been in anticipation of the gradual conversion of giant Nippon Telegraph & Telephone from a government monopoly to a private company, a change that begins this week. So far, though, Washington's representatives have been frustrated by what they consider to be Japanese reluctance to grant freer trade, and have made no more than modest progress. Said one top negotiator: "Substantial differences remain...