Photograph: Nate Berg It’s not just the big housing manufacturers that are catching on. Zoe Ward is a Tokyo real estate agent and CEO of Japan Property Central, which specialises in finding homes for expats, and she says buyers are starting to reconsider ... ( read original story ...)
San Francisco comfort women statue could end sister-city ties with Osaka
A private organisation formed by citizens of Chinese ancestry set up a statue depicting comfort women on private property in San Francisco in the ... Hirofumi Yoshimura, the mayor of Osaka, which has a sister-city relationship with San Francisco, has ... ( read original story ...)
Is Tokyo’s property market reaching its peak?
The tale of Hachiko, an Akita dog, who greeted his owner after work at Tokyo’s Shibuya station every day, is a Japanese version of Greyfriars Bobby. After his master’s death in 1925, Hachiko waited outside the station until his own death 10 years later ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka ‘sento’ warm to a changing bathing world
OSAKA -- Public baths are a unique part of Japan's popular ... registered it as a tangible cultural property, making it the first sento to receive that distinction. While it has long served local residents -- many of whom did not have baths at home in ... ( read original story ...)
Event Report: Square Enix Café Osaka With Kingdom Hearts Menu
Similar to the café in Tokyo that opened last year, the Osaka café will have a themed menu every month or so featuring a Square Enix property. The first theme for the café is Kingdom Hearts, in celebration of the franchise's 15th anniversary. ( read original story ...)
Japanese property groups pivoting from offices to hotels
TOKYO -- A hotel development deal between Mori Trust and the Hilton group highlights a shift toward the hospitality sector among Japanese real estate groups as concerns over an excess of office space mount. Tokyo-based Mori Trust will build a pair of ... ( read original story ...)
Fukuoka: Japan’s fastest growing provincial city appeals to overseas property buyers
As Japan's real estate markets continue to improve across the board and attract increasing foreign investment, one provincial city is outperforming the rest. Fukuoka, a historic port city on the south-western island of Kyushu – home of Kumamon and less ... ( read original story ...)
‘You know that we had nothing to do with this war’: Long-lost letters from interned Japanese-Canadians
The National Post read through the entire digitized archives of the Office of the Custodian of Enemy Property, and presents the most compelling examples below. “Surely there must be a terrible mistake somewhere!” Within weeks of the Japanese attack on ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese real estate offers shakier refuge to the unsackable
For corporate Japan, saddled for another decade with a large labour pool of the unremarkable, the unpromotable and the unsackable, the property game has become all about relocation, relocation, relocation of unwanted staff. In theory, say private equity ... ( read original story ...)
(Video) Investment seminars focused on overseas property
In view of the growing interest in overseas property, The Standard and Sing Tao The Standard ... against the backdrop of the Tokyo Olympics 2020 and impending opening of Osaka casinos. ( read original story ...)
Asia’s big money reigns over Japan’s property market
TOKYO -- Overseas investment funds are increasingly buying real estate in Japan, attracted by the country's weakening currency and ultralow interest rates. For the first half of fiscal 2017, property purchases by overseas investors expanded 3.3 times from ... ( read original story ...)
APA Group swindled in ¥1.3 billion land deal in Akasaka
TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested nine ... According to TBS, the suspects shopped the property to multiple real estate companies while posing as its rightful owner. The property was eventually sold to the APA Group for 1.26 billion ... ( read original story ...)
R?torso?C Residence in Tokyo
enice Contemporary Houses, Czech ... R?torso?C Residence, Contemporary Residence Japan, Home, Architecture Images, Property R?torso?C Residence in Tokyo Japanese Concrete Home Tokyo, Japa ... Alvar Aalto Time Lapse, Finnish Concept Design, Contemporary ... ( read original story ...)
Investment seminars focused on overseas property
In view of the growing interest in overseas property, The Standard and Sing Tao Overseas Property ... against the backdrop of the Tokyo Olympics 2020 and impending opening of Osaka casinos. ( read original story ...)
Expo covers latest overseas property market trends
In view of the growing interest in overseas property, The Standard and Sing Tao Overseas Property ... significant price growths have been recorded over the past four year in Tokyo and Osaka, where local Japanese have increasingly opted for buying rather ... ( read original story ...)
LaSalle successfully closes its fourth Japanese Logistics Fund
JLF IV will primarily focus on the greater Tokyo and Osaka property markets. Yasuo Nakashima, CEO of Japan and fund manager at LaSalle Investment Management, says, “With JLF IV, we are responding to the strong investor appetite for warehouses ... ( read original story ...)