Category: PROPERTY

When the alarm sounds at Jikei hospital in southern Japan, nurses race down a spiral staircase. Their mission: to rescue an infant left in the country's only baby hatch. For 15 years, the clinic has ... ( read original story ...)

Christie’s International Real Estate has announced plans for a major expansion across Japan. The global network has inked a deal with Hokkaido-based lifestyle real estate services firm H2 Group, ... ( read original story ...)

More than 4.5 acres of trees were cut down to make way for a new parking lot at the Waterfront Botanical Gardens. The parcel of land is located on Frankfort Avenue just north of Interstate 64, a space ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's National Diet passed its long-anticipated economic security bill . The legislation reflects growing concern about the vulner ... ( read original story ...)

Christie's International Real Estate, the world's leading luxury real estate brand, is partnering with Hokkaido-based lifestyle real estate services firm H2 Group to launch Christie's International ... ( read original story ...)

The assassination of a political leader in Japan is rare today, but that wasn’t always the case. Japan is considered one of the safest countries in the world, in particular due to its very low crimes ... ( read original story ...)

The AEI Housing Center finds that contrary to recent analysis by The markup/Associated Press, HMDA data on purchase loans do not show evidence of systemic discrimination by the mortgage lending ... ( read original story ...)

A Canadian company has teamed up with the renewable energy arm of Japanese property group Toyo to build one of Japan’s biggest plants to convert cow manure into power, the latest effort to fight the ... ( read original story ...)

Shohei Ohtani is doing things no other player has ever done, a point of pride for Japanese like Fumihiro Fujisawa. Fujisawa is the president of the Association of American Baseball Research — similar ... ( read original story ...)

Kublai Khan sent a massive fleet of over 4,000 vessels carrying more than 140,000 soldiers to invade the Japanese archipelago — the second such attempt by the Mongol ruler after a previous mission in ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's tiniest indie games went from rare CD-Rs to million-selling downloads. It's August 16th, 2008. The 11th Touhou game, Subterranean Animism, releases today at Comiket, trying to buy a copy is an ... ( read original story ...)

Researchers plan living facilities in space - The space train would travel between the Earth, the moon, and Mars. ( read original story ...)

COPS have launched an urgent hunt for a crazed monkey after the Japanese macaque injured 18 people in a ten-day rampage. The evil chimp kicked off its mad frenzy earlier this month when it slid ... ( read original story ...)

Demand slowing; construction activity improving Existing condominium sales in Tokyo fell by 17% y-o-y to 9,419 units in Q1 2022, following an 11% increase in 2021, according to The Land Institute of ... ( read original story ...)

Shares were higher in Asia on Monday, led by gains in Chinese markets after regulators urged banks to support property projects to support the housing market. ( read original story ...)

A homeowner has been awarded £6,000 in compensation following a battle with Japanese Knotweed which had been encroaching on their property. Chris Davies and his family received the payment after ... ( read original story ...)