TOKYO -- Small hotels may get the green light as Japan considers abolishing regulations on minimum numbers and sizes of guest rooms, per a government panel's reform recommendations, to make more lodging facilities available in advance of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The Regulatory Reform Promotion Council suggests permitting smaller lodgings in a report it will submit Tuesday to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The report also includes recommendations on enforcing and clarifying business and labor standards in a variety of sectors, such as allowing the privatization of some labor standards enforcement.
