Economic security, supply chain resilience gain prominence in Japan's merger guidelines
By Sachiko Sakamaki ( August 6, 2026, 05:24 GMT | Comment) -- Japan's revised merger guidelines mark the clearest acknowledgment yet that economic security and supply-chain resilience may justify corporate consolidation. While competition experts expect the revisions to have little immediate effect on merger outcomes, they see them as a notable signal that the Japan Fair Trade Commission is increasingly aligning its competition policy with the government's economic-security agenda.Japan's revised merger guidelines mark the clearest acknowledgment yet that economic security and supply-chain resilience may justify corporate consolidation. While competition experts expect the revisions to have little immediate effect on merger outcomes, they see them as a notable signal that the Japan Fair Trade Commission is increasingly aligning its competition policy with the government's economic-security agenda....
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