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Japan Joins Global Pressures on Microsoft By Yuri Kageyama, AP Business Writer April 1, 2004

eWEEK.com Special Report: Microsoft Trials TOKYO (AP)—The surprise raid by Japanese anti-monopoly authorities on Microsoft Corp.'s Tokyo offices was impeccably timed—barely a month before the European Union slapped a $613 million fine on the company.

The message from this country's Fair Trade Commission was clear: Japan is not about to sit idle as other global powers raise concerns over Microsoft's suspected abuses of its domination in the computer software business.

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