SHANGHAI -- Major Japanese and Chinese taxi companies have concluded a business tie-up in Shanghai that allows each company's customers to reserve the counterpart's taxis in Japan or China on their websites from Wednesday.
Daiwa Motor Transportation Co., which is based in Tokyo, and Dazhong Transportation (Group) Co. in Shanghai announced on Wednesday that they will also introduce apps that will enable customers to call the counterpart's taxis in the two nations. The new apps are expected to be out by next year summer when the Tokyo Games will be held.
"We'd like to provide comfortable services for [Chinese] people who visit Japan for travel or business," Kinya Maejima, president of Diwa Motor Transportation, said at a press conference on that day.
With unlicensed taxi services for Chinese tourists rampant in Japan in mind, Yang Guoping, president of Dazhong Transportation (Group), said, "[The tie-up has] the merit of letting people get in a taxi safely."
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