TT-893 -- Who Is Responsible if Your Airbnb Home Burns Down? E-biz news from Japan.

Submitted by kanrix on April 24, 2017

When a tenant causes a minpaku house to burn down and it takes 2 other dwellings nearby with it, where does the responsibility lie? And what of the 3rd party houses?

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TT-892 (Tourism Edition) -- Technology Birth Pains: New Definition of the travel API = "A Path to Irritation"

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on April 17, 2017

APIs are indeed hard work to implement. The supplier offering an API needs to think deeply about their business and at which points in their existing systems they are willing to inject outside requests for action.

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TT-891 -- Parcel Delivery Crisis Threatens Amazon's Japan Growth, e-biz news to Japan

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on April 10, 2017

One of Japan's big 3 parcel delivery companies, Yamato, dropped a bombshell when a "inside source" revealed that they would gradually end their same-day deliveries for Amazon Prime customers.

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TT-890 (Tourism Edition) -- Nothing Interesting to Show? Create a Festival

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on April 3, 2017

In risk averse Japan, the thrill scale is a bit more docile than some other locations, but the most iconic and visually spectacular events are superb. The olden-day Japanese were particularly good at vivid colors, lighting, and shapes.

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