Japan's Cease and Desist antimonopoly ruling

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japantimes.co.jp - Google anti monopoly law

In an unprecedented move, the Japan Fair Trade Commission on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order against Google for violating the country's anti-monopoly law by forcing manufacturers to preinstall the company’s apps on their Android smartphones.
This is the first time that Japan has issued such an order against any of the major U.S. technology companies referred to collectively as GAFAM — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft.

“By binding smartphone manufacturers and telecommunication carriers, Google has made it difficult for other competing search engine applications to be used on Android phones,” Saiko Nakajima, a senior investigator for digital platform operators at the commission, said.

Google was also found to have paid portions of its advertising revenue to manufacturers as part of its contracts with them, as long as they fulfilled conditions it prescribed, such as setting Google's Chrome as the default browser and not preinstalling other search engine apps.

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jftc.go.jp: JFTC Issues a Cease and Desist Order to Google LLC

The Japan Fair Trade Commission (hereinafter referred to as the “JFTC”) today issued a cease and desist order against Google LLC pursuant to the provisions of the Antimonopoly Act (hereinafter referred to as the “Act”).
In this case, Google LLC has been committing an act that violates the provision of the Article 19 (falling under paragraph (12) [Trading on Restrictive Terms] of Unfair Trade Practices) of the Act.
The JFTC published the commencement of the investigation on October 23rd, 2023. In addition, in the process of this investigation, the JFTC exchanged information with overseas competition authorities that investigated Google LLC's act similar to this case.

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