With Japan’s public works projects having long been tainted by bid-rigging and bribery, the city of Yokosuka in Kanagawa Prefecture is taking an aggressive approach toward curbing such corruption.
The city stunned the national government and the construction industry in September when it took the information technology path and launched its own electronic bidding system.
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