Tag: property

Japan's population is shrinking, with researchers predicting the loss of about 16 million citizens in a little more than two decades. Its residents are also trending older, meaning there are fewer you... ( read original story ...)

First, Japan is a culture of "superstitions," or beliefs about the impression of the person who previously inhabited a property. Many of these abandoned homes were left empty after death, by suicide o... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (TR) – The Tokyo District Court last month handed Genshiro Kawamoto, a legendary property tycoon, a prison term for tax evasion, reports the Asahi Shimbun (Nov. 20). Between 2009 and 2011, Marug... ( read original story ...)

A property owner has been fined £18,000 after allowing Japanese Knotweed to spread to neighbouring homes. M B Estate Ltd ignored a community protection notice from May 2017 to deal with the invasive w... ( read original story ...)

In a comment with relevance to China, he said Japan will keep cooperating with the U.S. and Europe in dealing with intellectual property issues. Note: Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the TPP soon ... ( read original story ...)

A property owner has been fined £18,000 after allowing Japanese Knotweed to spread to neighbouring homes. M B Estate Ltd ignored a community protection notice from May 2017 to deal with the invasive w... ( read original story ...)

For dinner, you may take dinner in your room, or in the private dining rooms on the property. Japan's best hotels are usually either hyper-traditional, with only wood, paper and lacquer, or ultramoder... ( read original story ...)

Guests can also book bespoke in-room tea and wine tastings, as well as traditional treatments at the on-property Mizuki Spa. Meiji Shrine is a serene, cultural spot located in a 200-acre forest right ... ( read original story ...)

In other cases, the homes aren’t technically “free” until you’ve rented them out for a number of years and the property has subsequently been deemed yours, according to Japanese property blog Rethink ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s real-estate property investment market, as you may or may not know, is Asia-Pacific’s biggest market, and the second biggest global market in the world. But it is difficult for foreigners to i... ( read original story ...)

If the thought of trying to buy a family home in Ireland’s super, soar-away property market makes you want to reach for a stiff drink, spare a thought for Japan, which is grappling with the opposite p... ( read original story ...)

Every year the young migrate to work in the cities. Many urban dwellers, meanwhile, are set to inherit nearly worthless rural property from their parents when they pass away. Rie Nakaya, a Tokyo house... ( read original story ...)

This property might pay Booking.com a little more to be in this Program. Osaka – Show on map (3.7 miles from center) Featuring the 31st-floor S-PARK Spa with a sauna, jet bath and hot-spring baths wit... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese government is disposing its surfeit of "akiya", properties left vacant for protracted periods of time, at steep discounts, even offering them for free. Such units usually entice otherwise ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese billionaire art collector who's restored two historic buildings in central Queenstown has bought a landmark property close by. Auckland-based Soi-chiro Fukutake has paid an undisclosed sum ... ( read original story ...)

So if you're a prospective home-buyer and you don't mind the occasional ghost, a once-abandoned Japanese property awaits you. Sign up here for our daily Thrillist email and subscribe here for our YouT... ( read original story ...)