He said the Japanese Government had taken strong measures to punish executives involved in the sale by a Toshiba subsidiary of computer-controlled milling machines to the Soviet Union.

A Toshiba subsidiary and Kongsberg sold technology to the Soviet Union that helps its submarines run quieter, evading detection.

The Toshiba Corporation reported today that its profit had risen 36 percent, to $109 million, in the first half of its fiscal year, despite American tariffs on Japanese goods and anger over exports to Moscow by a Toshiba subsidiary.

United States officials say the Toshiba Machine Company, a Toshiba subsidiary, sold milling machines to the Soviet Union in the early 1980's that helped make Soviet submarine propellers harder to detect.

The sanctions were imposed by Congress last year after revelations that a Toshiba subsidiary, Toshiba Machine Corporation, sold giant machine tools to the Soviet Navy to produce quieter submarines.

In 1987, Legislator Michael D'Andre initiated a law severing the county's leases for Toshiba copiers after reports accusing a Toshiba subsidiary of selling the Soviet Union equipment used to make quieter submarines.

Toshiba is subject to sanctions imposed by Congress after a Toshiba subsidiary sold banned goods to the Soviet Union in the mid-1980's.

For a time C. Itoh came under criticism for its suspected role in the shipment by a Toshiba subsidiary of machine tools to the Soviet Union that could be used in sophisticated submarines.

Congress ran into similar problems last year when it was designing sanctions against the Toshiba Corporation for the sale to the Soviet Union of sensitive submarine equipment by a Toshiba subsidiary, the Toshiba Machine Company.

The House of Representatives voted today to ban sales of Toshiba products from stores on American military bases in retaliation for illegal sales of advanced technology by a Toshiba subsidiary to the Soviet Union.