Ride-sharing programme by Uber stopped in Japan

Tokyo

JAPAN'S transport ministry has ordered Uber Technologies to stop a ride-sharing pilot programme in a southern Fukuoka city, deepening the regulatory challenges that the startup company faces globally.

The San Francisco-based company was told to stop the trial of Everyone's Uber, a programme that allows users in Fukuoka to share rides, as soon as possible because it violates the nation's road transportation law, ministry official Hidetaka Sakai said by phone on Wednesday.