Category: PROPERTY

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee decided Tuesday to register a set of ruins from the ancient Jomon period in Japan as a World Heritage cultural property. The Jomon ruins are 17 sites in the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan partied like it was 1999 in the 1980s, but the underlying weaknesses in its structure of corporate governance caused the mother of all asset price crashes. ( read original story ...)

Experts have warned that the more contagious delta variant could cause a surge during the Olympics, which started Friday. ( read original story ...)

Olympic host city Tokyo is on track to a record high of more than 3,000 coronavirus cases after the number of infections almost doubled in a day.Daily infections in the city, which has seen an influx ... ( read original story ...)

"Thank you, Hidilyn Diaz, for the first-ever Olympic Gold for the Philippines! We are so proud of you!," Pacquiao tweeted from the United States where he is training for his upcoming fight against ... ( read original story ...)

AIB and Bank of Ireland – their commercial property portfolios are a fraction of boom-time levels. Like the Tokyo Olympics, European Banking Authority (EBA) stress tests were delayed by a year in 2020 ... ( read original story ...)

Still in quarantine, foreigners visiting Japan for the Tokyo Olympics can’t leave a bubble, and that means they can’t see the sights. ( read original story ...)

The real problem of these Olympic games isn’t representation, but the fact that people in Japan don’t want them to happen. ( read original story ...)

Skateboarding has embraced the Summer Games in many ways despite its counterculture roots much in the way that snowboarding did in the Winter Games. ( read original story ...)

China is witnessing the heaviest rainfall in central Henan province in 1,000 years resulting into death of over 50 people. Indian social media users are sharing an old video claiming to be of ... ( read original story ...)

Takanori Abe of Abe & Partners takes a closer look at how the Japanese government’s approach to the strategic acquisition and utilisation of SEPs will change ... ( read original story ...)

K&L Gates has a new hire for its Tokyo office. Partner Mitsuhiro Imamura will be joining the Pittsburgh-based firm from DLA Piper, where he was of counsel. Imamura’s joining, along with his team of ... ( read original story ...)

The 2021 Olympics are in full swing, and yet everywhere viewers look, they see the phrase "Tokyo 2020." On the surface, that seems strange. Sure, the Olympics were originally scheduled for 2020, but ... ( read original story ...)

An estimated 17 million people in the United States watched the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics held in a largely empty stadium, down 36% from the kickoff to the Rio de ... ( read original story ...)

With tropical weather forecast to approach Tokyo within days, Olympics organizers say they’re talking with individual sports about changing event programs. ( read original story ...)

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