Japan's competition guidelines, as revised in July 2026, still say that a business deciding on its own judgement, weighing price, quality and service, not to deal with another firm is basically not a problem

How it’s built

1. Read from the Japan Fair Trade Commission's guidelines on distribution and business practices under the Antimonopoly Act, current text revised 8 July 2026.

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

The word 'basically' matters: refusals with anti-competitive aims are treated differently elsewhere in the guidelines.

Where it comes from

The line in the source

事業者が、価格、品質、サービス等の要因を考慮して、独自の判断によって、ある事業者と取引しないこととしても、基本的には独占禁止法上問題となるものではない。

In English

Even if a firm, weighing price, quality, service etc., decides on its own judgement not to deal with another firm, that is basically not a problem under the Antimonopoly Act.