Editorial

14:41 JST, September 18, 2025

Fuel prices remain high due to factors such as ongoing wars overseas and the weak yen. Under such circumstances, it is utterly unacceptable if companies were intentionally driving up diesel fuel prices, which directly impact logistics costs.

The Japan Fair Trade Commission has launched a compulsory investigation into several companies that sell petroleum products on suspicion of forming a cartel to raise diesel fuel prices and for other purposes in violation of the Antimonopoly Law, which covers unfair trade restrictions. The JFTC searched eight companies in Tokyo and elsewhere over their alleged sales of diesel fuel to other businesses, including transport firms.

The eight companies allegedly purchased diesel fuel from petroleum wholesalers and........

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