Shinjuku City, Tokyo, Japan, has issued 30-day business suspension orders to 12 unscrupulous private lodging (minpaku) operators covering 22 facilities.
Shinjuku accounts for just under 10% of all registered private lodging businesses in Japan—the highest share nationwide. As the numbers have grown, cases escalating into complaints from nearby residents have also increased sharply, surging from 70 cases in fiscal 2021 to 561 in fiscal 2024.
In July, the ward issued business improvement orders to 30 operators covering 52 facilities. It then imposed 30-day suspension orders, effective from September 12, on 12 operators (22 facilities) that violated those orders.
In connection with the improvement orders, the ward gave 37 operators (70 facilities) that had violated periodic reporting obligations an opportunity to provide explanations. Five operators (15 facilities) submitted notices of discontinuation, while documents failed to reach three operators (three facilities), for which separate measures are being taken. In preparing the suspension orders, the ward also gave 14 operators (29 facilities) that had violated the improvement orders an opportunity to explain; three operators (seven facilities) subsequently reported discontinuation.
Those receiving suspension orders are seven individuals — 高正照, 田村治典, 金晨曦, 福田周平, 増汐義信, 友野修一, and 岡田昌和 — and five corporations: 合同会社Quaid (representative partner: 増汐真未), 合同会社Milabo (representative partner: 宮本雅子), 株式会社lean and stable (representative director: 堀川博之), 合同会社イージーピージー (representative partner: 黄韋鈞), and 株式会社54 (representative director: 金沢大志).
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