Toshima Ward in Tokyo has issued one-year business suspension orders, effective from July 1, to 23 private lodging (minpaku) facilities operated by 15 businesses.
In April, Toshima Ward issued business improvement orders to 202 facilities run by 83 businesses that had repeatedly failed to submit mandatory regular reports. As 23 facilities under 15 of those businesses continued to neglect reporting and showed no improvement, the ward issued business suspension orders dated June 11 and announced them on its website on June 17. This is the first time Toshima Ward has issued business suspension orders.
Within the ward, complaints such as noise and improper disposal of garbage have not decreased. Mayor Miyuki Takagiwa commented that the ward will strictly supervise operators who show no signs of improvement, and, taking into account the district and period restriction rules for private lodging businesses scheduled to take effect in December, will submit a draft amendment to the ordinance at the next (third) regular ward assembly so that hotel and ryokan business licenses cannot be used as a loophole for private lodging operations.
The operators that received business suspension orders are nine individuals — Midori Oi, Zhang Dongnan, Zheng Buwen, Shinichi Yajima, Tomokazu Ota, REN HANG, HUANG ANQI, Lei Minfang, and Gu Liren — and five corporations: Momogawa LLC (representative partner: Yu Zhou), Milabo LLC (representative partners: Miho Miyamoto and Masako Miyamoto), Japan Lease Co., Ltd. (representative director: Yukiko Ishizawa), BABY TATTOO Co., Ltd. (representative director: ZHOU KAAN), and Chouten Co., Ltd. (representative director: Zhang Wenyi), plus one operator that ceased business before the announcement, for a total of 15 businesses.
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