TOKYO/WASHINGTON — Japan’s proposed legislation to rein in tech giants’ control over mobile app marketplaces aims to establish a regulatory regime on par with Europe, with bans on specific behavior backed up by fines equivalent to 20% of sales or higher for noncompliance.
The bill drafted by the Japan Fair Trade Commission would be Japan’s first ex-ante competition regulation — legislation intended to prevent anticompetitive practices, rather than address them after the fact as the current Antimonopoly Law does — based on the full text seen by Nikkei.
