Can the blazing Japanese pop comet add some luster to San Francisco's struggling Japantown? One hotel hopes so. The Best Western Miyako Inn -- the smaller of Japantown's two hotels -- plans to ...

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom ... is negotiating to buy most of the Japantown mall as well as the Radisson Miyako Hotel and the Best Western Miyako Inn, properties that define the central ...