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Comment: Japan court decision on ranking algorithm pushes digital-platform ball forward, ahead of antitrust regulator

By Toko Sekiguchi
  • 25 Jul 2022 06:06
  • 25 Jul 2022 06:06
A Japanese court verdict last month finding that the country’s top restaurant-review platform’s interference with its search-engine algorithm to alter its ranking results was a violation of antitrust law was ground-breaking, both in its finding and in the handling of a case directly pertaining to a digital platform’s data business.
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Toko Sekiguchi

Senior Correspondent, Tokyo


Toko is a senior correspondent in Tokyo covering antitrust, anti-bribery & corruption, financial services and regulatory issues in Japan. Before joining MLex, she has worked as a journalist for The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones News, Bloomberg News and Time Magazine.

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