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diagonalslip
swapping one old boys club for another?
Yubaru
It's a start, but the Japanese government has to cut ties and investigate them and prosecute as necessary!
Ah_so
Dentsu has always been too powerful and power leads to corruption.
dagon
Telling that the only real consequences for dentsu corruption come from foreign sources.
And it must be a massive loss of face and influence to lose out to a Chinese-owned firm.
It is doubtful than things will be less corrupt and more aboveboard than at dentsu, but it is a change in the landscape.
dbsaiya
What about Mori?
Sven Asai
Haha, does anyone believe that? They are of course much too big to be declared out.
Gobshite
Should be in prison
Aly Rustom
Its a start
Now lets start rounding up the Dentsu execs and put them behind bars.
Mark
Ouch, Ouch, Ouch, this really hurts not only Dentsu but Japan.
I hope this will be the last lesson for Corporate Japan, the Corrupt old ways of doing business era is OVER. Do it clean and transparent and the rewards are much better in the long run.
YeahRight
From Dentsu to China. Out of the frying pan into the fire.
Droll Quarry
The IOC is just as corrupt as Dentsu. The whole Olympic process is an incestuous quagmire of greed.
Virginia woolf
I wonder if you would be saying that if it were a western company?
Virginia woolf
In other words, the small fish.
Aly Rustom
Yes. Of course I would.
I wonder why you think I wouldn't....
Designer 02
Really? Surprised no one has commented on this..... ''
justasking
This is so funny. Dentsu DID the corruption WITH IOC. I guess this is punishment for pleading guilty.
Nevertheless, Dentsu had too much power. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
kurisupisu
Where are the Dentsu officials in detention?
There aren’t any!
Corruption in Japan is solved with a deep bow and numerous ‘gomen nasais’
Don’t expect any gaol terms
Bofington
Anyone wonder if Dentsu votes LDP? Perhaps in the fine print of the contracts, all employee votes are automatically converted to LDP as well.
Jokes aside, if they are bribing the olympics, what would stop them from bribing the government to avoid jail? Do you honestly think we'd hear about it if that was the case? Not until LDP loses, at least.
We just had a story about a poor Vietnamese kid arrested for cutting hair, yet these corpo clowns have complete freedom alongside their corruption.
Fighto!
It'd be fantastic if Dentsu went bankrupt.
Jijitsu
*"has awarded exclusive rights for four Olympics from 2026 to 2032 to the Switzerland-based, Chinese-owned sports marketing agency Infront.*
"Infront already holds Olympic broadcast rights in sub-Saharan Africa"
"It was bought in 2015 by Chinese corporation Wanda."
••••• and that's how the Chinese take over the world -inch by inch, piece by piece... They already hold key ports through contracts, have holdings in Europe, etc. You'd be surprised at the number of firms, based in some other nations, but owned by Chinese. There's no stopping them.
rainyday
Way to go rooting out corruption there by handing everything over to Sepp Blatter’s nephew. Definitely everything will be clean from now on /s
SDCA
Lots of innocent people will lose their jobs only for the elites to probably go unscathed. The pawns who have been busting their all, working till literal death will suffer the most. Hopefully the name value of Dentsu will give those people some credit when applying for other jobs.
Aly Rustom
Anyone wonder if Dentsu votes LDP?
Willing to bet the family jewels it does- and probably donates to their campaign too.
Honestly, it would not surprise me in the least.
Peter Neil
My dog is probably the only thing in the world that’s not corrupt.
ian
Don't know much about politics, esp of countries not my own, but would it be correct to assume all of these bribery scandals and charges are only coming out and happening because Abe died?
Mocheake
A step in the right direction but it's also the pot calling the kettle black. One of the most corrupt organizations in the world is the IOC. So what do they do? They tie-up with China. Uh huh. Maybe Dentsu was just too much in the news and the IOC likes their corrupt partners to be a bit more low-key.
virusrex
Finally something of real consequence happening to Dentsu because of theri actions. Unfortunately the rights just changed hands from one corrupt company to another, at least the people in Sapporo will not have their taxes used to support Dentsu (and others) thanks to the scandals.
Seigi
DENTSU is the one that controls the narratives that set Japanese people's minds. Although not everyone is gullible enough to believe their narrative, the vast majority still get led by Dentsu's wave of information or misinformation.
smithinjapan
As usual, leave it to the international community to dole out REAL punishment while at home they just, AT MOST, talk about small fines and suspended sentences if anything at all.