21.   U.S. bonds rose in Asian trading on expectations that Japanese purchases of Treasuries will continue, traders said.

22.   But this was apparently due to a seasonal fall in Japanese purchases.

23.   Either way, Japanese purchases of everything from Italian suits to American-made computers and Asian commodities would suffer.

24.   It calls for more monitoring of global trade in semiconductors but lacks specific targets for Japanese purchase of foreign chips.

25.   Japanese purchases of dollars, meanwhile, helped boost the U.S. currency, said David Gilmore, a partner at Foreign Exchange Analytics in Essex, Conn.

26.   Kantor called for greater Japanese purchases of foreign chips for cars, video games, telecommunications, and other areas where American companies are competitive.

27.   This was apparently due to a seasonal fall in Japanese purchases.

28.   But prices on the futures market in New York held steady after news of a large Japanese purchase of US and Australian cotton.

29.   Despite slower growth in imports from the United States and Europe, Japanese purchases of some products enjoyed particularly strong growth last year.

30.   They were supported by a surge in Japanese purchases of office equipment and semiconductors from neighbouring countries.