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Japan’s antitrust watchdog said on March 24 that it has ordered five pharmaceutical wholesalers to pay surcharges totaling 627 million yen over a bid-rigging scandal involving drug purchases made in Kyushu by a state-backed hospital system. The Japan Fair Trade…
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