Japan has been urged to improve cooperation between its government agencies in order to tackle money laundering and the funding of terrorism.

Consulting and auditing firm PwC Japan released a 2018 analysis of economic crimes such as fraud and cyber attacks in Japanese corporations July 31, 2018, based on its Economic Crime...

On June 8, 2020, the Japanese Diet passed a bill to amend the Whistleblower Protection Act ("Act").

The CC is the key legislation governing bribery. It applies to the bribery of public officials (komuin) (Article 197 and 198 of the CC).

Japan is widely perceived as one of the least corrupt countries in the world. In 2020, Transparency International ranked Japan as the 19th least corrupt country out of 180 countries in...

While many people don’t know it, a bribery scandal in Japan in 1976 was part of the motivation for the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Anti-Corruption & Bribery Comparative Guide for the jurisdiction of Japan, check out our comparative guides section to compare across multiple countries