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Comment: Kepco ‘bribery’ scandal highlights Japan's attitude to private sector graft

By Toko Sekiguchi and Ben Lucas ( July 21, 2020, 07:51 GMT | Comment) -- The unusual and high-profile corruption scandal at Kansai Electric Power, one of Japan’s largest power companies, has shed light on the country’s efforts to prosecute private sector bribery in Japan. Rarely used legislation that has a high prosecution threshold, mixed with a cultural tendency to perceive bribery as an ethical breach by public servants, has led to private sector bribery cases generally being overlooked in Japan.The unusual and high-profile corruption scandal at Kansai Electric Power, one of Japan’s largest power companies, has shed light on the difficulty of prosecuting private sector bribery in Japan....

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