The city of Osaka has been struggling to respond to a spate of complaints about problems linked to the emerging minpaku business, which makes vacant rooms in private homes available as accommodations for tourists, particularly for those from abroad. The western city is one of ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency initiated a buyout program on Thursday to reduce staff numbers as the agency seeks to refocus its agenda on reducing regulation, according to an internal memo to staff seen by Reuters. The memo was sent to all EPA employees on ...
Hoping to drum up more business, including from overseas visitors and the elderly, base taxi fares were lowered Monday to ¥410 from ¥730 in central Tokyo and two suburban cities. The new base fare is for the first 1.052 km, while the one it replaced ...
The Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, is calling on the government to take measures to allow more foreign nationals to work in Japan in fields involving research and development as well as to ease labor shortages. In its policy proposal made Monday, the nation's biggest ...
Airbnb Inc. has gone on a charm offensive in Japan, hoping to drum up support as regulators debate whether to clamp down on the startup's rapidly expanding operations. The world's third-most valuable private startup dispatched high-powered lawyer and political strategist Chris Lehane to lay out ...
The industry group representing ryokan inns and hotels nationwide says short-stay accommodation is gaining popularity.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government considers asking the central government for special deregulated zone status so it can import foreign housekeepers.
The country's household and small business electricity market will be deregulated from April 1, allowing individuals to choose their electricity provider. Optimists, especially renewable energy advocates and small entrepreneurs, hope the development will break the stranglehold that the country's 10 regional utilities have on ...
An online travel service provider gets government accreditation to start renting out private homes on the model popularized by Airbnb.
Spend a few minutes to fill in a single-page form from a government website, and mail it in — that is all you need to register as a power producer in Japan as it opens its ¥8.1 trillion ($67 billion) retail electricity market. More than ...
The government decided Tuesday to launch a dialogue with business leaders, urging them to boost capital investment as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's priorities swing from security back to the economy. The dialogue will take place on a regular basis between Abe, his ministers and business ...
Japan's reform of its energy market is proving a boon to investors in the company at the center of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant disaster. Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s shares have surged 59 percent in the six months through Tuesday's close, making it the ...
