Approaches in the digital market

Case investigation

• JFTC Issues a Cease and Desist Order to Google LLC 2025年04月15日
• Approval of the Commitment Plan submitted by Google LLC 2024年4月22日
• Approval of the Commitment Plan submitted by SCINEX CORPORATION and SMARTVALUE Co., Ltd 2022年6月30日
• Approval of the Commitment Plan submitted by Expedia Lodging Partner Services Sàrl 2022年6月2日
• Approval of the Commitment Plan submitted by Booking.com B.V. 2022年3月16日
• Closing the Investigation on the Suspected Violation of the Antimonopoly Act by Rakuten Group, Inc. 2021年12月6日
• Closing the Investigation on the Suspected Violation of the Antimonopoly Act by UNIQUEST INC. 2021年12月2日
• Closing the Investigation on the Suspected Violation of the Antimonopoly Act by Apple Inc. 2021年9月2日
• Approval of the Commitment Plan submitted by Amazon Japan G.K. 2020年9月10日
• The JFTC has Filed a petition for an Urgent Injunction against Rakuten, Inc. 2020年2月28日
• Approval of the Commitment Plan submitted by Rakuten, Inc. 2019年10月25日
• Closing the Investigation on the Suspected Violation of the Antimonopoly Act by Airbnb Ireland UC and Airbnb Japan K.K. 2018年10月10日
• Closing the investigation on the suspected violation of the Antimonopoly Act by Apple Inc. regarding its agreements with mobile network operators 2018年7月11日
• Closing the Investigation on the Suspected Violation of the Antimonopoly Act by Minna no Pet Online co, ltd. 2018年5月23日
• Report on e-Books Agreements from Amazon Services International, Inc. 2017年8月15日
• Closing the Investigation on the Suspected Violation of the Antimonopoly Act by Amazon Japan G.K. 2017年6月1日

Merger review

• Closing the Review of the Proposed Acquisition of iRobot Corporation by Amazon. com, Inc. 2024年1月31日
• Closing the Review of the Proposed Acquisition of Figma, Inc. by Adobe Inc. 2023年12月21日
• The JFTC Reviewed the Proposed Acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Inc. by Microsoft Corporation 2023年3月28日
• The JFTC Reviewed the Proposed Acquisition of Slack Technologies, Inc.by salesforce.com, inc. (Tentative Translation) 2021年7月1日
• The JFTC Reviewed the Proposed Acquisition of Fitbit, Inc. by Google LLC 2021年01月14日
• The JFTC Reviewed the proposed managerial integration of Z Holdings Corporation and LINE Corporation(Tentative Translation) 2020年8月4日
• The JFTC Reviewed the Acquisition of Shares of Nihon Ultmarc Inc. by M3, Inc. 2019年10月24日
• Major Business Combination Cases in Fiscal Year 2015 2016年6月8日 (Case8 Acquisition of Ikyu Corporation shares by Yahoo Japan Corporation)
• Major Business Combination Cases in Fiscal Year 2014 2015年6月10日 (Case8 Joint share transfer by Kadokawa Corporation and Dwango Co.,Ltd.)

Coordination and Strengthening of Advocacy and Enforcement

• Towards the Active Promotion of Competition Policy in response to Socioeconomic Changes as represented by Digitalization - Coordination and Strengthening of Competition Policy Advocacy and Law Enforcement - (Tentative Translation) 2022年6月16日

Guidelines

• Amendments of the "Guidelines to Application of the Antimonopoly Act Concerning Review of Business Combination" and the "Policies Concerning Procedures of Review of Business Combination" 2019年12月17日
• Release of the "Guidelines Concerning Abuse of a Superior Bargaining Position in Transactions between Digital Platform Operators and Consumers that Provide Personal Information, etc." 2019年12月17日

Market studies

• About the Report Regarding Generative AI, Version. 1.0 2025年06月06日
• Requests for Information and Comments Concerning Generative AI and Competition 2024年10月2日
• Market Study Report on Connected TV and Video On-demand Service, etc. 2024年3月6日
• Market Study Report on News Content Distribution 2023年9月21日
• Report Regarding Mobile OS and Mobile App Distribution 2023年2月9日
• Report Regarding Subcontracting Transactions in Software Services 2022年6月29日(Only available in Japanese)
• Report Regarding Cloud Services 2022年6月28日
• Report Regarding Public Procurement for Information Systems 2022年2月8日(Only available in Japanese)
• Final Report Regarding Digital Advertising 2021年2月17日
• Report Regarding Common Point Services 2020年6月12日(Only available in Japanese)
• Report Regarding Household Accounting Services and Cashless Payments with QR Code and barcode 2020年4月21日
• Report Regarding Trading Practices of Online Restaurant-Review Portal Site 2020年3月18日(Only available in Japanese)
• Report regarding trade practices on digital platforms (Business-to-Business transactions on online retail platform and app store) 2019年10月31日

Study group

• The Study Group on Competition Policy for Data Market
  • Report of Study Group on Competition Policy for Data Markets 2021年6月25日
  • The Study Group on Competition Policy for Data Markets 2020年11月13日
• The Study Group on Competition Policy in Digital Markets
  • The Study Group on Competition Policy in Digital Markets Released the Report on Algorithms/AI and Competition Policy 2021年3月31日
  • The Study Group on Competition Policy in Digital Markets 2020年7月22日
• The Study Group on Business Alliances
  • Report of Study Group on Business Alliances 2019年7月10日
• The Study Group on Data and Competition Policy
  • Report of Study Group on Data and Competition Policy 2017年6月6日
    
    *Every document is tentative translation. Please refer to the original text written in Japanese.

Discussion Papers

• Algorithmic Collusion: Competition Law Regulation and Beyond it 2023年6月30日
  
• Should Platforms be Held Liable for Defective Third-Party Goods? 2023年3月31日
• Discussion Papers on Ecosystems by Digital Platforms 2023年1月27日
• Algorithm and Collusion: A Survey of Economic Analyses and the Implications for Competition Policy 2022年3月18日
• Price Signaling from Competition Law Perspective - In the context of unreasonable restraint of trade under the Anti-Monopoly Act (AMA) based on discussions and precedents in the U.S. and Europe 2021年10月27日
• Cross-Market Platform Competition in Mobile App Economy 2021年9月15日
• Horizontal Mergers in the Presence of Network Externalities 2021年8月21日
• A Theory of Regulation of Exploitative Abusive Behavior on Online Platforms: The Facebook Case(German Federal Cartel Office Decision 2021年6月25日