11.  Spending by Japanese companies has left them more competitive than companies in other nations.

12.  They will be cutting through the competition like a hot knife through butter.

13.  In return for the loans, India removed five Japanese companies from a government blacklist.

14.  Since it is known that Japanese manufacturing companies in general often subcontract a significant amount of their production, the last ratio should not be taken seriously.

15.  The average in Japanese companies was rather more than twice this percentage.

16.  The linkage with academics around the world is not confined to Japanese companies.

17.  The downgrading of domestic industry may be compensated for by the more progressive business environment that foreign, and particularly high technology US, European or Japanese companies promote.

18.  Evidence from successful Japanese companies has suggested that production costs are often closely connected to management practices and operations, rather than the scale of operations within plants.

19.  These are likely to be the same Japanese companies that are already exploiting the forests of other Far Eastern countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.

20.  But the team hit financial troubles following a buy out by a Japanese company Leyton house.