JFTC helping smaller companies pass on increased costs to their larger trading partners, and ultimately, to consumers

JFTC Chairman Furuya dismissed as “nonsense” claims that the JFTC’s enforcement endeavors against Big Tech have been sidelined

Japanese court verdict on restaurant-review platform’s interference with its search-engine algorithm to alter its ranking results

Japan Fair Trade Commission has played the central role, with the courts trailing behind in alignment

More than one year since allegations emerged that Chinese online gambling company 500.com had paid bribes in Japan.

The new head of Japan’s antitrust regulator vowed to chase after digital businesses as needed.

The outgoing head of Japan’s competition authority called on Japanese companies to more assertively use antitrust laws to their advantage.

As antitrust rulemaking in Japan’s data economy increasingly takes on protectionist overtones in the form of measures targeting foreign Internet giants, the debate on revising competition laws and guidelines is being co-opted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration, diminishing the role played by the traditional gatekeepers of competition policy. At issue is who will ultimately make the rules — the Japan Fair Trade Commission or an expert group convened by the prime minister?