A group of Japan’s top hotels, including Tokyo’s historic Imperial Hotel and New Otani, have been sharing rates information in a potential breach of anti-monopoly rules, the country’s antitrust ...

Sources have told NHK that the Fair Trade Commission is expected to issue a warning to 15 leading Tokyo hotels over alleged actions to control prices. The hotels are said to have engaged in ...

Japan's antimonopoly watchdog has warned 15 major hotel operators that their long-time practice of sharing room pricing and other internal information could be regarded as illegal price fixing under a ...

Japan's antitrust watchdog plans to issue warnings to 15 high-end Tokyo hotel operators for regularly sharing their room rates and oc ...

The operator of the Imperial Hotel Tokyo deliberately chose a young architect to design its new main building close to the Imperial Palace to regain the “jewel of the Orient” reputation ...

Officials from the 15 companies had met once a month to exchange information about room occupancy rates, average room prices and room reservations, according to the FTC.

Hotel prices around the country have soared in recent months amid labour shortages and stubborn inflation. Read more at ...

It would be difficult to find a location more prestigious than the one occupied by Palace Hotel Tokyo. A stone's throw away from the moat of the Imperial Palace, this elegant hotel has a prime ...

TOKYO, April 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Imperial Hotel, Ltd. is pleased to announce that Reiko Sakata has been appointed General Manager of the Imperial Hotel, Kyoto, scheduled to open in spring 2026.