Prime Minister Mori listening to an explanation of a universal grinding machine Prime Minister Mori listening to an explanation of an ultraprecision machine

Tuesday, October 31, 2000

Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori visited the Twentieth Japan International Machine Tool Fair, held at Tokyo Big Sight (Tokyo International Exhibition Center) October 28-November 4. JIMTOF, sponsored by the Japan Machine Tool Builders' Association and the Tokyo International Trade Fair Commission, is one of the three biggest international machine tool fairs; the other two are held in Europe and the United States. Exhibiting this year were 509 companies from 14 countries and regions.
Machine tools, which cut and shape the metal parts essential to all machines, are known as "machines that make machines." Japan's machine tool industry has achieved great growth in numerically controlled machine tools, but in future it is expected to develop further through the incorporation of information technology.