Improving trend continues in Japanese industry.TOKYO, Sept. 21 KyodoRecovery trends in Japanese Japanese (jăp'ənēz`), language of uncertain origin that is spoken by more than 125 million people, most of whom live in Japan. There are also many speakers of Japanese in the Ryukyu Islands, Korea, Taiwan, parts of the United States, and industry are strengthening, with four of 19 surveyed industries reporting improvements in September, the Economic Planning economic planning, control and direction of economic activity by a central public authority. In its modern usage, economic planning tends to be pitted against the laissez-faire philosophy which developed in the 18th cent. Agency (EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. ) said in a bimonthly bi·month·ly adj. 1. Happening every two months. 2. Happening twice a month; semimonthly. adv. 1. Once every two months. 2. Twice a month; semimonthly. n. pl. report released Tuesday. Improvements were reported in September from the previous report in July in the steel, petrochemical petrochemical, any one of a large group of chemicals derived from a component of petroleum or natural gas. The cracking processes for manufacturing gasoline produce vast quantities of gaseous hydrocarbons. , telecommunication telecommunication Communication between parties at a distance from one another. Modern telecommunication systems—capable of transmitting telephone, fax, data, radio, or television signals—can transmit large volumes of information over long distances. equipment and domestic transportation sectors, it said. Under the agency's five levels of sentiment, ranging from "strong" to "depressed," only one sector -- industrial machinery -- remained at the bottom. Such a state of affairs has not been seen in nearly 18 months, the EPA said. "There were no sectors in which sentiment moved downward," an agency official also said. "Overall, the nation's industrial sentiment has improved considerably compared with that in March this year." Sentiment improved in the steel sector from July's "depressed" to "dull" in September helped by recovering exports to Asian markets. It rose in the petrochemical sector from "dull" to "leveling," mirroring increases in both production and shipments. Thanks to robust sales of mobile phones, sentiment in the telecommunication equipment sector also moved up to "leveling" from "dull." That of the domestic transportation sector rose to "dull" from "depressed" as growth in the housing sector arrested a drop in demand for truck transportation, the agency said. |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion