He said Japanese competitors may spend up to $20,000 on a sumo robot.

At the same time, Japanese competitors were hurt by the decline of the dollar.

And while imported components or raw materials may now cost them less, the same is true for their Japanese competitors.

A major opportunity to guard against future pressure from Japanese competitors thus seems to have been frittered away.

But the cost of this battle is estimated to have been more than twice as great for our Japanese competitors.

From 1997 to 2006, a Japanese competitor held the belt in every year but 1999.

In contrast, its three Japanese competitors have delivered a total of 132 machines.

At all three levels, American companies are under increasing attack from Japanese competitors.

We are now, once more, growing faster than our American and Japanese competitors.

We've seen the case of a Japanese competitor who has folded up his tent here and gone home.