By Genta Nakanishi ( October 14, 2026, 03:50 GMT | Insight) -- Totetsu Kogyo and four other Japanese railway-maintenance companies are set to face cease-and-desist orders and surcharges totaling around 500 million yen ($3.2 million) from Japan's competition regulator over suspected bid rigging in Tokyo subway-maintenance contracts, MLex understands. The companies have been notified of the proposed orders, but hearings have yet to take place, it is understood. Totetsu Kogyo and four other Japanese railway-maintenance companies are set to face cease-and-desist orders and surcharges totaling around 500 million yen ($3.2 million) from the Japan Fair Trade Commission, or JFTC, over suspected bid rigging in Tokyo subway-maintenance contracts, MLex understands....
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