President Trump treated the Japanese prime minister to a round of golf Wednesday morning at his luxurious West Palm Beach, Florida property. The leaders were not expected to hit the links but fit a round in anyway. They departed Mar-a-Lago for Trump ... ( read original story ...)
How The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company Serves Up Authentic Hospitality: A Brand Evolution, Property by Property
All of that history and heritage now inform a simple furnishings detail that for us localizes our Kyoto property." Back in Tokyo, you can see this localization at play within Ritz-Carlton's towering luxury property in the heart of midtown. The hotel ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo: Woman dies in fall into hole while burying cat corpse
The corpse of a woman was found along with a garden shovel on her property in Adachi Ward TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police suspect that a woman died in an accident while burying a corpse of a cat on her property in Adachi Ward, reports the Sankei ... ( read original story ...)
Compensation Clinic: Hyatt Regency Osaka, Management & Room Maintenance Problems
Our Compensation Clinic this week makes a stop at the Hyatt Regency Osaka, Japan where I attempted to stay for two nights earlier this months but ended up walking away to a different property. I stayed at the Hyatt Regency Osaka before exactly a year ago ... ( read original story ...)
Japan calls for ’emergency measure’ blocking access to websites that pirate manga and anime
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 ...)
Japan Tech Evolution Ushering in Shared Logistics
... 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 ...)
Internet piracy taking major bite out of Japan’s famed manga culture
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 ...)
Japan, China to hold high-level economic talks on April 16: Asahi
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 ...)
Japan’s first Ace Hotel to open next year in historic Kyoto
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 ...)
Japan’s Feb machinery orders beat expectations, wholesale prices slow
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 Announces Japanese UNESCO World Heritage Site Property
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 ...)
Japan February machinery orders rise unexpectedly in positive sign for capex
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 ...)
40 antique guns discovered in 17th century gunsmith house
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 ...)
Finance Ministry changed timing of waste discovery over Moritomo land sale
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 ...)
VOX POPULI: Akie Abe must be called to the Diet to clarify role in dodgy land deal
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 ...)
Ireka, Japan’s Hankyu Hanshin in RM400m property project in Nilai
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 ...)