The so-called sharing economy has spread to a variety of fields such as cars and homes, and Japan is seeing another rising trend in recent years - bicycles. According to NTT Docomo Inc., which has been teaming up with municipalities to offer a bike-sharing service on an experimental basis, its bicycles were used about 1.8 million times in fiscal 2016, which ended March 31, up from 20,000 in fiscal 2012.
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