Chinese taxi-hailing Didi app to debut in Osaka possibly in Sept.

A taxi-hailing service using a smartphone application developed by Chinese ride-sharing company Didi Chuxing Technology Co. will be launched in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, possibly this month, the service providers said Monday.Japanese taxi company Daiichi Koutsu Sangyo Co. and Didi Mobility Japan Corp., a joint venture set up by mobile phone carrier SoftBank Corp. and Didi in June, said they have forged an alliance to start the trial service, targeting the increasing number of Chinese tourists in Japan."I hope to meet the demands of foreign tourists and provide a more comfortable ridi…READ FULL ARTICLE