Masako Wakui is a Professor of Law at Kyoto University. She previously taught at Universities of Osaka City and Rikkyo. She is a researcher in Japanese Competition Law and Policy. Her research interests include economic law, merger regulation, consumer protection, public procurement, intellectual property rights, and social law.
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A merger involving a digital platform can cause unprecedented anticompetitive effects, which presents challenges for the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC). This article examines three digital platform merger cases reviewed by the JFTC, namely, Ultmarc/M3, ZHD (SoftBank)/LINE, and (...)
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The unexpected shock provoked by the Covid-19 crisis and the measures taken to limit the spread of the pandemic have affected the functioning of many markets. Throughout the world, competition authorities which, in the last decade, had been enforcing their laws in the context of steady economic (...)
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While Japan is aging rapidly and the local communities in rural areas are struggling to maintain their essential societal function, the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has revised the merger guidelines to allow for mergers that create a monopoly. Under the new approach, which the author (...)
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