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Uber Getting Pressured In Japan, Too

The Rodney Dangerfield of the sharing economy, Uber can't get no respect. The latest place to love it about as much as an infection, Japan, ordered Uber to stop a ride-sharing pilot program in southern Fukuoka city. The San Francisco-based company was told by Japan's transport ministry to kill Everyone’s Uber, a program that allows users in Fukuoka to share rides, as soon as possible because it violates the nation’s road transportation law.

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