Category: PROPERTY

The Cabinet Office’s Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters plans to encourage ... The site had over 174 million visitors in March, making it the 25th busiest website in Japan, according to the analysis tool SimilarWeb. Piracy websites have ... ( read original story ...)

... Estate Investment Spikes 23 Percent in 2017 Outbound Japanese real estate investment rises 23% year-over-year to $1.3 billion, development investment activity was also brisk, and indirect property investment via funds is set to increase in the coming year. ( read original story ...)

But cracking down isn’t so easy, says Orie Kishimoto, counselor for the Cabinet Office’s Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters. Japan’s most notorious piracy website takes the form of a “leech site,” which aggregates links to manga ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso ... amid the U.S. government’s growing frustration with China’s policies on trade and intellectual property. Financial markets have been roiled in the past week on fears a full-blown U.S-China trade war could shatter ... ( read original story ...)

the Ace Hotel Group will fulfill a ‘long-standing dream’ next year with the opening of its first property in Japan. Ace Hotel Kyoto will be ‘a space that honors the beauty and history’ of the former imperial capital, which is famed for its ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s core machinery orders rose unexpectedly in February ... disapproval of China’s trade practices and its treatment of foreign intellectual property. Japanese exporters would be unlikely to increase investment if China and ... ( read original story ...)

The Ritz-Carlton, Nikko is slated for a 2020 debut as the brand’s first hotel in Japan set within a UNESCO World Heritage site. “Today’s luxury traveler is increasingly seeking out unique experiences and the opportunity to become immersed in a ... ( read original story ...)

The two economic superpowers have threatened each other with heavy tariffs amid growing U.S. disapproval of China’s trade practices and its treatment of foreign intellectual property. Japanese exporters would be unlikely to increase investment if China ... ( read original story ...)

SAKAI, Osaka Prefecture--Forty rare antique matchlock guns and other ... which designated the residence as a cultural property, in March. The Inoue family settled in Sakai in the first half of the Edo Period, and the main building was erected then. ( read original story ...)

According to a contractor that undertook soil improvement work on the state property in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, the Kinki Local Finance Bureau confirmed the presence of household waste buried on the property in August 2015 during the improvement work. ( read original story ...)

Traveling northwest from Osaka's Umeda Station on the Hankyu Takarazuka Line ... Akie, told him: "This is fine property. Please proceed (with your plan)." It has come to light that a Finance Ministry official "coached" an attorney representing Moritomo ... ( read original story ...)

KUALA LUMPUR: Ireka Corporation Bhd is teaming up with Japan's Hankyu Hanshin Properties Corp to undertake the Rimbun Kasia property development in Nilai with a GDV of over RM400mil. Ireka said on Monday it had entered into agreements with Osaka-based ... ( read original story ...)

U.S. real estate seen closer to peak, asset manager says Japanese institutional investors’ appetite for European real estate funds is rising as attractive yields and lower hedging costs lure them away from a potentially peaking U.S. market, according to ... ( read original story ...)

The ministry sold the plot in Osaka, western Japan, to Moritomo Gakuen for a price ... Mitsuru Ota, who heads the ministry's bureau in charge of state-owned property, told an Upper House committee on Monday that an official in his section called ... ( read original story ...)

Following the opening of the group's first Millennial property in Kyoto last year, the Tokyo iteration also has co-working spaces, a 24-hour lobby-lounge, shared bathrooms and a boutique selling artist-designed T-shirts and branded hot water bottles. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, April 9 (Reuters) - Japanese property firm Smart Days Inc said on Monday it has filed for protection from creditors with 6.6 billion yen ($62 million) in liabilities, after the company had difficulty generating rent from the houses it manages. ( read original story ...)