Walking the Talk: The Asia-Pacific Tipline for 14 June 2019

Our lead story this week focuses on the work by Japan's Fair Trade Commission. The Japanese competition authority tends to keep its investigations quiet until they are concluded, but we heard this week about its dawn raids on contact lens makers. The agency was more vocal about its advocacy work, as Commissioner Reiko Aoki and other senior officials demonstrated recently at the competition conference held by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. But even when there are slow weeks in Asia Pacific-antitrust enforcement, we can count on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to keep humming along.