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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 May 23rd, the Japan Fair Trade Commission ("JFTC") requested that the Public Prosecutors Office ("PPO") initiate criminal investigations of eight leading Japanese bridge construction companies, which the JFTC believes have committed bid-rigging in bridge constructions ordered by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

I was recently helping a client in Tokyo respond to a serious and sophisticated cyber breach where hackers executed a transfer of nearly US$1M out of the client's Hong Kong bank account.

Elaine is a partner whose career epitomises what it means to work in international arbitration. Qualified in England and Singapore, she has spent time in Paris and Tokyo...

On July 17, 2018, the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion in Stoyas v. Toshiba Corporation, holding that the Supreme Court's decision in Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd.

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

On October 12, 2012, in response to the recent AIJ scandal, the Financial Services Agency of Japan (the "Japanese FSA") published a draft amendment to certain rules.

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

経済産業省は、2018年4月に「キャッシュレス・ビジョン」を策定し、キャッシュレス決済比率を2025年までに4割程度にするという目標を掲げた。

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...

In United States v. Boswell, No. 23-30315 (5th Cir. Jul. 23, 2024) ("Decision"), the Fifth Circuit addressed a multifaceted appeal involving criminal convictions on charges of bankruptcy fraud...

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.