Japan’s largest property-and-casualty insurers said they will sell cross-shareholdings after the government pressured them to abandon the decades-old practice. Most Read from BloombergHow Much Wealth ... ( read original story ...)
Execs at 4 major Japanese insurers to take pay cut over price fixing
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A total of about 130 executives at four major Japanese property and casualty insurance companies will take up to 50 percent pay cuts for colluding to fix prices in contracts with ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo rent for family-oriented apartments passes $1,260 avg.: realty IT co.
Renting apartments targeted at families in Japan's capital now costs over 190,000 yen (approx. $1,260) on average per month, a real estate-re・・・ ... ( read original story ...)
Hyatt debuts Hyatt House branded property in Tokyo, Japan
Hospitality major Hyatt has bolstered its presence in Japan by opening its first Hyatt House-branded property in Tokyo. Hyatt House Tokyo Shibuya follows the debut of Hyatt House Kanazawa and marks ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Nikkei Index Sets Another Record High. Will the Topix Follow?
Such valuation obviously did not make sense. As the bubble burst, Tokyo stocks plunged some 70% and Japanese property lost 80% of its value in the 1990s. Japan also entered a negative spiral of ... ( read original story ...)
Foreign News: Spies, Spies & Spies
"AMERICANS ARE SPYING IN JAPAN!" splashed out Tokyo's chauvinistic Kokumin Shimbun last week, exposed the horrid fact that pictures of Japanese business buildings in ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Real Estate Leader Housing Japan Launches New Investment Sales Division
Housing Japan launches its Investment Sales Division, offering a comprehensive mix of property investment, sales assistance, and management services in Tokyo's luxury real estate market. TOKYO, JAPAN ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Nikkei breaks bubble-era record
Japan's blue-chip Nikkei 225 on Thursday finally broke through a record high set just before the country's asset bubble catastrophically burst in the early 1990s. Its stock market was hit by global ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s stock market is back after 34 years but the country is deeply changed
Share prices may have finally overtaken level of 1989 but sentiment in Tokyo is nowhere near bullish as it was ... ( read original story ...)
Opponents of controversial Tokyo park redevelopment file petition
to designate the famous avenue of nearly 150 gingko trees in the area as a scenic cultural property for protection, Kopp said. Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike in February approved the plan, giving a green ... ( read original story ...)
Asian property portfolios shift away from office sector to logistics
Asia-Pacific property portfolios typically have 40%-50% allocated to ... "We do have residential assets in Tokyo as well as Osaka. And we've been pleasantly surprised by the rental growth that's ... ( read original story ...)
Samsung supplier Tokyo Electron has a new home in Austin at mixed-use tower RiverSouth
Tokyo Electron, which has been located at a southeast Austin campus for 30 years, will be the newest tenant at RiverSouth, near Lady Bird Lake. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo bourse reclaims top spot for market capitalization in Asia
The Tokyo Stock Exchange has reclaimed top spot in Asia in total market capitalization of listed companies in U.S. dollar terms, data showed Monday, some three-and-a-half years after it ceded the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Carmakers Forge Ahead With EV Investments Despite Slowdown
Toyota, Honda and Panasonic Holdings Corp. — which supplies car batteries to Tesla and Toyota — were the only Japanese businesses in the top 20 companies pledging foreign direct investment in ... ( read original story ...)
Wim Wenders on Beyoncé’s tribute to Paris, Texas and how Tokyo toilets inspired his new film
Wim Wenders on Beyoncé’s tribute to Paris, Texas and how Tokyo toilets inspired his new film - INTERVIEW: The German auteur has been Oscar-nominated for ‘Perfect Days’. He talks to Kevin E G Perry ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Is Doing Well But Isn’t ‘There’ Yet
US Ambassador Rahm Emanuel's recent Washington Post article ,“What no expert saw coming: the rise of Japan,” lauds the country's progress on the def ... ( read original story ...)