Airbnb, Uber woes show Japan does not share easily Thousands of Airbnb reservations scrapped, Uber reduced to delivering food: life is hard in Japan for giants of the sharing economy, stuck between tough regulation and popular suspicion. Japan may be the world's third-largest economy and a high-tech hub, but it has been surprisingly slow to warm to the sharing economy that has disrupted markets across the globe. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITESREFILE TO ADD TRANSLATION OF SB 1