Japan’s new home-sharing law was meant to ease a shortage of hotel rooms, bring order to an unregulated market and offer more lodging options for foreign visitors ahead of next year’s Rugby World Cup and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Instead, the law is likely to stifle Airbnb and other home-sharing businesses when it is enacted in June and force many homeowners to stop offering their services, renters and experts say.
The “minpaku”, or private temporary lodging law, the…
Source : South China Morning Post
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