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A review of the competition authorities' enforcement activity against restrictive agreements and abuse of dominance in Japan, including significant recent cases, trends and outlook.

Yahoo Japan Corporation , the core company of the Z Holdings Corporation Group, today announces its initiatives in response to the Japanese governments enforcement of the Act on... | February 11, 2021

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 22, 2020, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry ("METI") proposed a draft of cabinet order ("Cabinet Order") 1, implementing regulations ("Implementing Regulations") 2 and guidelines ("Guidelines")for the Act 3 on Improving Transparency and Fairness of the Specified Digital Platforms ("DP Act"). They are seeking comments from the public by January 20, 2021. In accordance with the June 2018 and June 2019 cabinet decisio...

✔ Prevent data misuse With respect to requiring disclosure of the basic factor used to determine search ranking, METI has announced it will not require providers to disclose their specific algorithms for ranking. This is important, because each providers ranking system is a trade secret. 13 However, as described below, future implementing regulations will cover the method of disclosure and additional items for disclosure. The regulations are still under discussion, and thus it is important to...