Approaches in the digital market

Case investigation

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

Merger review

• Closing the Review of the Proposed Acquisition of iRobot Corporation by Amazon. com, Inc. 2024/1/31
• Closing the Review of the Proposed Acquisition of Figma, Inc. by Adobe Inc. 2023/12/21
• The JFTC Reviewed the Proposed Acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Inc. by Microsoft Corporation 2023/3/28
• The JFTC Reviewed the Proposed Acquisition of Slack Technologies, Inc.by salesforce.com, inc. (Tentative Translation) 2021/7/1
• The JFTC Reviewed the Proposed Acquisition of Fitbit, Inc. by Google LLC 2021/01/14
• The JFTC Reviewed the proposed managerial integration of Z Holdings Corporation and LINE Corporation(Tentative Translation) 2020/8/4
• The JFTC Reviewed the Acquisition of Shares of Nihon Ultmarc Inc. by M3, Inc. 2019/10/24
• Major Business Combination Cases in Fiscal Year 2015 2016/6/8 (Case8 Acquisition of Ikyu Corporation shares by Yahoo Japan Corporation)
• Major Business Combination Cases in Fiscal Year 2014 2015/6/10 (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) 2022/6/16

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” 2019/12/17
• Release of the “Guidelines Concerning Abuse of a Superior Bargaining Position in Transactions between Digital Platform Operators and Consumers that Provide Personal Information, etc.” 2019/12/17

Market studies

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

Study group

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

Discussion Papers

• Algorithmic Collusion: Competition Law Regulation and Beyond it 2023/6/30
  
• Should Platforms be Held Liable for Defective Third-Party Goods? 2023/3/31
• Discussion Papers on Ecosystems by Digital Platforms 2023/１/27
• Algorithm and Collusion: A Survey of Economic Analyses and the Implications for Competition Policy 2022/3/18
• 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 2021/10/27
• Cross-Market Platform Competition in Mobile App Economy 2021/9/15
• Horizontal Mergers in the Presence of  Network Externalities 2021/8/21
• A Theory of Regulation of Exploitative Abusive Behavior on Online Platforms: The Facebook Case(German Federal Cartel Office Decision 2021/6/25