Japan enacts law ensuring access to third-party apps

Basically Japan just follow EU leads, nothing come up originally from Japan for this one.

Ahead of the vote by lawmakers, Shinji Morimoto, chair of the upper house committee on economy and industry, said the bill "prohibits acts that may restrict competition related to specified software".

'Restrict competition '?

That is rich coming from the political arm of Japan Inc.

It is just so some government subsidized local corporates can have their buggy, clunky bloatware access these major platforms.

The courts once again swoops in the service of Japan Inc. and not the public.

"Basically Japan just follow EU leads"

Originality is overrated. Choosing what works elsewhere before applying it is often the more prudent approach.

"The courts once again swoops in the service of Japan Inc. and not the public."

Ultimately, it's the public who will choose which apps to upload to their phones.

Shinji Morimoto, chair of the upper house committee on economy and industry, said the bill "prohibits acts that may restrict competition related to specified software".

Funny. The LDP exists to restrict competition, always has done.

The UK runs America which in turn runs Japan. Welcome to the New World Order.

Mainly targetted at Apple, outside of the pixel phone, Google make the operating system not the phones. You are also free to install any wallet you want on android and use it for payments.

“Funny. The LDP exists to restrict competition, always has done.”

You’re not following what’s happening in Japan very closely. The LDP has scrapped regulations and restrictions that were there to protect workers and small businesses so that large corporations could maximize their profits. Deregulation on hiring temp workers to cut labor costs, for example.

You’re not following what’s happening in Japan very closely. The LDP has scrapped regulations and restrictions that were there to protect workers and small businesses so that large corporations could maximize their profits. Deregulation on hiring temp workers to cut labor costs, for example.

You do not seem to be following as those are all things affecting labor, whose suffering is all according to plan and accepted under the LDP.

The protections for any significant market share corporate proceed as usual with subsidies, tax breaks and regulations. And the macroeconomic QE guaranteed income for large capital holders.

See: Agriculture, the taxi industry etc.

You’re not following what’s happening in Japan very closely.

On the NHK 7pm news last night there was a feature on the current round of food price increases, one of which is rice. There were several reasons given for the sudden jump in the price of rice, such as the hot summer and torrential rain last year which damaged the crop last summer and autumn.

They also blamed "foreign tourists" - apparently the influx of tourists is diverting rice from supermarkets to restaurants catering to tourists. Nowhere did the feature mention that the Japanese government has been paying farmers not to grow rice for years, in order to maintain an artificially high price.

""Kyodo News reported that the law is expected to take effect by the end of 2025.""

By then the so called "duopoly" will find a way to counter this law and continue their monoply.

But wait Japanese businesses are NO DIFFERENT, many monopolize the market to Block Of or make it almost impossible for local and foreign companies to share the market in a fair comp. environment.

Banks and Insurance companies are on top of the list.

Dumb move, even dumber than the EU. A phone is a door into a person entire life, especially finance and security. If you DON'T have one party responsible for it, when the $41!s hits the fan, they will all put their hand up and say not my problem. I would have thought national states would batten down the hatches even more and write into law that one company is responsible and accountable.

Competition is there in the market place in choosing different phone brands.

Nowhere did the feature mention that the Japanese government has been paying farmers not to grow rice for years, in order to maintain an artificially high price.

CREDIBLE source?

So, most large Tech Companies are American.

[Japan cannot complete.]

And so, Japan enacts a new fresh law that enables them to take or obtain or divert money directly or indirectly from the American companies in to their own pockets so that the non-competitive Japanese companies can stay in business here in Japan.

Am I on the right track here?

Good on Japan for being the follower again. Also like how they use the old Twitter logo instead of X.

The EU, Japan and other governments should stop interfering and meddling, forcing companies to introduce weaknesses into their ecosystems. I have always felt that it's perfectly reasonable for Apple and Google etc to restrict access to third party payment systems and app stores on the basis that it's heir house, their rules. Any business is free to develop their own phones and operating systems. People don't have to use their product. It's not a human rights issue. It's a commercial operation in a market economy (mostly). Should I allow a person to bring their own food to my restaurant to cook and then eat or to cook and then sell to my customers to my detriment?

So, most large Tech Companies are American.

[Japan cannot complete.]

And so, Japan enacts a new fresh law that enables them to take or obtain or divert money directly or indirectly from the American companies in to their own pockets so that the non-competitive Japanese companies can stay in business here in Japan.

Am I on the right track here?

I think you hit the nail on the head

That's absurd!

Behavior deemed anti-competitive will see operators fined 20 percent of their revenue in Japan for each offending service, rising to 30 percent if they do not stop.

What about a similar penalty to Japanese car companies that falsify data?

What about a similar penalty given to political parties that get caught taking kickbacks?

What about Aeon?

About time. And make them pay their illicit invoices from their customers as well as the Japanese corporate criminals too.

Apple has criticized the new law, saying it risks endangering users' privacy and security.

The greatest risk to privacy and security is companies that track everything the user does. Your phone tracks you and everything you do, Meta tracks you, and the US government tracks everyone and everything.

Homeland Security laws ensure all American software has backdoors for the NSA and that makes American software and hardware inherently unsafe.

Why do you think the US dislikes Tik-Tok? Because it is not American. It answeres to one of America's rivals.

Behavior deemed anti-competitive will see operators fined 20 percent of their revenue in Japan for each offending service, rising to 30 percent if they do not stop.

Does this cover console makers like Nintendo and Sony? Because they restrict what games are launched on their platforms and take a cut on every game.