At this rate, the risk is high that our country's competitive position will drop even further.

Our competitive position is weakened by the rising labor cost.

The strengthening of competitiveness on export markets is an urgent need.

Japan is highly competitive in high technology industries.

Japan's competitiveness is very strong in industrial products, but weak in agricultural products.

Especially over the last 20 years, the purported link between progressive welfare policies and economic failure in the Northern European countries seems to point to the difficulty of sustaining both full social welfare and international competitivity.

We are internationally competitive in production technology.

We must cut down on prices; we can't compete.

Japan's competitiveness in camera making is unchallenged.