Online sales of over-the-counter drugs

Online sales of over-the-counter drugs

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Mikitani, president of online shopping mall Rakuten Inc., speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Nov. 6, 2013, following the government's announcement that online sales of drugs moving from prescription to over-the-counter status will be banned for three years from the point of such movement in principle under new rules that could take effect next spring. Mikitani slammed the government-planned restrictions on online sales of over-the-counter drugs as "unconstitutional" and suggested he will take the case to court.

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