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Google may not challenge Japan's antitrust order on default search settings

By Sachiko Sakamaki ( September 9, 2025, 07:35 GMT | Insight) -- Google LLC has not yet appealed the Japanese competition regulator’s first cease-and-desist order issued to a US Big Tech company in April. Meanwhile, with a US federal court order mandating various remedies to address search monopolization and the imminent enforcement of a new smartphone law in Japan, MLex was told that it now appears Google may have opted not to contest the narrower, potentially more palatable Japanese order. Google LLC has not yet appealed the Japanese competition regulator’s first cease-and-desist order issued to a US Big Tech company in April....

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