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Antimonopoly Act amendment submitted to the Diet

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • April 15 2008

The cabinet of Japan’s Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda submitted to the Diet an Amendment Proposal for the Antimonopoly Act and the Premiums and Representations Act, that would overhaul the Antimonopoly Act’s provisions governing abuse of dominance, false labeling and surcharges

JFTC and METI to jointly investigate unfair trade practices

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • April 15 2008

On March 25 the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) unveiled a plan to coordinate efforts to investigate alleged unfair trade practices

JFTC prosecutes marine hose cartel

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • March 20 2008

On February 20, 2008 the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) issued an order against Bridgestone Corporation and four non-Japan-based companies for their roles in an international price-fixing cartel in the market for marine hose

Five companies accused of bid rigging on Nagoya Subway projects

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • April 19 2007

On February 28, 2007, the JFTC filed criminal accusations with the Prosecutor-General of Japan against executives of five so-called “super general contractors” for allegedly rigging bids on subway construction projects awarded by the city of Nagoya

JFTC contemplates repeal of Antimonopoly Act’s international airfare exemption

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • April 19 2007

The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has released a summary of discussions held in February 2007 by the Study Group on Government Regulations and Competition Policy about the current Antimonopoly Act exemption for international airfare setting consultations

JFTC to abolish appeals system in collusive bidding and cartel cases

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • February 19 2008

The JFTC has established a plan to substantially revise the current appeals system under the Antimonopoly Act

METI pressures JFTC to apply Antimonopoly Act to foreign companies

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • February 19 2008

Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has announced that it will seek to allow the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) to regulate foreign companies’ violations of Japan’s Antimonopoly Act by actively pursuing extraterritorial application of the law

The JFTC files criminal charges against galvanized steel sheet cartel

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • January 9 2009

On November 11, 2008 JFTC filed a criminal accusation with the Prosecutor-General against three major steel sheet companies, Nippon Steel & Sumikin Coated Sheet Corporation, Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd. and Yodogawa Steel Works, Ltd., on suspicions of violating Article 3 of the Antimonopoly Act (“Unreasonable Restraint of Trade”

JFTC adopts amended merger review guidelines, premerger consultation procedures

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • May 23 2007

The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has adopted amendments to its “Guidelines on the Application of the Anti-Monopoly Act to Reviewing Business Combination” (the Merger Guidelines), which are designed to improve the transparency and predictability of the merger review process and to reduce delays caused by the agency’s review

JFTC conducts inspection of JSARAC

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • May 27 2008

On April 23, 2008 the JFTC conducted an onsite inspection of the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC

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