Hungry Ghost Festival is when much of Asia believes that ghosts and spirits emerge from the underworld, so what better occasion to sit down with a classic regional horror film? ( read original story ...)
The Japanese House of Victorian Flatbush-Ditmas Park, Brooklyn
The Japanese House in Flatbush, Brooklyn was built in 1903 by the firm Kirby, Petit, & Green in an effort to attract wealthy New Yorkers. ( read original story ...)
Property investors remain confident that recovery is only month away
Even though deal volumes in Asia Pacific contracted 32 per cent because of how the impact of COVID-19 was felt on investment markets, property investors remain confident that a recovery is only months ... ( read original story ...)
Bold and Brave Hotel Debuts In The Time Of COVID-19
In the wake of that locked down debut, pent-up domestic demand for travel in the wake of COVID-19 surged onto the resort’s shores. Fourteen thousand individual guests stayed in June and more than ... ( read original story ...)
ASX falls; Japan PM Shinzo Abe to resign; Nikkei sinks
The sharemarket is selling off into the close as miners drag on the index. Harvey Norman net profit up 19.4 per cent to $480.5 million. Boral sinks to $1.1 billion loss. Pointsbet raises $300 million, ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expresses intent to step down due to health
Concerns about Abe's chronic health issue, simmering since earlier this summer, intensified this month when he visited a Tokyo hospital two weeks in a row for unspecified health c ... ( read original story ...)
Lane Hirabayashi, scholar who refused to let Japanese American prison camps be forgotten, dies at 67
A UCLA professor and one of the nation's leading authorities on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, Hirabayashi spent decades keeping memories of the prison camps alive. ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s GLP unveils 280 billion yen Japan property fund
Singapore investment company GLP has launched a private open-ended Japanese logistics real estate income fund with 280 billion yen (US$2.6 billion) of initial fundraising. The GLP Japan Income Fund ... ( read original story ...)
Planetary ball-milling helps protect our planet from plastics pollution
Plastics are ubiquitous in modern life; unfortunately, once they lose function, they pollute the environment. Now, researchers at Osaka University have developed polymer materials that combine ... ( read original story ...)
Westlake pipe repair product producer buys Strongsville property
Pipe repair product producer Pipeline Development Co. of Westlake is the new owner of the Sumitomo DeMag multitenant property at 11792 Alameda Drive in Strongsville. Pipeline Development, which does ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo reports lowest single-day Covid-19 cases
The latest figure compares to the 212 new cases reported on Sunday and 256 the previous day, reports Xinhua news agency.Mond ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Hulic to issue unique environment-related corporate bonds
TOKYO -- Major Japanese property company Hulic plans to issue unique corporate bonds as early as October in accordance with the international framework for funding related to environmental ... ( read original story ...)
Op-ed: What Japan’s 1980s boom and bust can tell us about the Chinese economy
Three major vulnerabilities emerge in China's economy at a potential turning point in its relations with the world, says Federated Hermes portfolio manager Steve Chiavarone. ( read original story ...)
No fear of coronavirus at drive-through haunted house
TOKYO (AP) - It’s a living nightmare — but a socially distanced ... California's rolling blackouts Black Lives Matter crowd demands Seattle homeowners 'give up' property: 'We coming for it' “We have ... ( read original story ...)
Hotel JAL City Fukuoka Tenjin to Open in 2021
The property will offer 280 guest rooms ranging from 25 square ... Fukuoka is almost the same distance from Shanghai, Taipei, and Seoul as it is from major cities in Japan such as Osaka, Tokyo, and ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus shakes up Tokyo’s commercial property market
TOKYO -- The coronavirus pandemic is transforming Tokyo's property lease market. In Shibuya ward, at the center of Japan's capital, the amount of vacant restaurant properties has doubled over the ... ( read original story ...)