Astro Japan Property Group is a listed property group which, prior to the completion of the Proposal, invested in the Japan real estate market. It held interests in a portfolio comprising 29 retail, office, residential and hotel properties, which have now ... ( read original story ...)
An unflinching look at Tokyo’s dark side
Published in June, high on bestseller lists and infused with a forensic disgust at just about everything, Masayoshi Osaka’s Places in Metropolitan Tokyo you don’t want to live is principally intended as a handbook for property buyers and renters. ( read original story ...)
A view from Kagurazaka, Tokyo
Kengo Kuma is a noted Japanese architect and professor of architecture at the University of Tokyo. He designed the lattice timber stadium that is being built to host the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. My favourite view in Tokyo is perhaps an old inn (not in ... ( read original story ...)
‘China’s Airbnb’ capitalises on Japan’s Olympics fever
“Real estate in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto is cheap compared to Shanghai and Beijing, and Chinese interest in property investment is strong,” said Tomoko Suzuki, chief executive officer of Tujia’s Japanese unit. “We definitely have the highest ... ( read original story ...)
China Aoyuan Property Group Limited (3883) Dips -4.43% on Oct 9
The SEHK follows the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) and the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) in terms of market capitalization. Good China Aoyuan Property Group Limited liquidity helps it to stay in the lists of SSE. The pre-market session on the SEHK opens at 9 ... ( read original story ...)
Xiwang Property Holdings Co Ltd (2088) Is Yet to See Trading Action on Oct 9
The SEHK follows the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) and the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) in terms of market capitalization. Good Xiwang Property Holdings Co Ltd liquidity helps it to stay in the lists of SSE. The pre-market session on the SEHK opens at 9:00 ... ( read original story ...)
A La Carte: Chicago-area burger bar looks for Springfield franchisee
Hibachi chef Robin Bekock is the owner/operator of YUM YUM HIBACHI after a decade experience working the local dining scene at OSAKA and KIKU ... south side after lease negotiations for the Wabash property east of LITTLE SAIGON fell through. ( read original story ...)
Construction under way for 8,000-plus-panel solar project
will be built on about 10 acres of a 221.7-acre property owned by Teddy A ... Brookside Solar from the New York City-based Forefront Power LLC, a subsidiary of the Tokyo-based Mitsui and Co. Ltd., in March. Mr. Brennan, however, said AES Distributed ... ( read original story ...)
Decoding Shenzhen: The Chinese city that makes the world’s tech
CUHK's Chung says the concept of owning intellectual property rights is now catching on in the industry ... These days, people draw parallels between Huaqiangbei and Akihabara, Tokyo's vibrant and colourful district for electronics. Huang believes ... ( read original story ...)
Is the response to scams criminally slow?
Forgery of an official seal on a document earned the offender confiscation of his property and banishment ... who holed himself up in his apartment in Osaka’s Kita Ward while his lawyer tried to work a deal with the prosecutor’s office. ( read original story ...)
Vietnam, Japan share experience in invention commercialisation
HCM City (VNA) – Vietnamese and Japanese intellectual property experts gathered at a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on October 6 to share experience in completing copyright system and improving the quality and comercialisation of inventions. According to ... ( read original story ...)
BRIEF-Japan Real Estate Investment to acquire real estate property for 333.1 mln yen
* Says it plans to acquire Sendai-based real estate property on Nov. 1, at the price of 333.1 million yen ( read original story ...)
BRIEF-Japan Retail Fund Investment acquires trust beneficial rights of property for 6.35 bln yen
* Says it acquired trust beneficial rights of Aichi-based property on Oct. 6, at the price of 6.35 billion yen ( read original story ...)
From food to cosmetics, Japan firms eye Malaysia’s halal industry – SMBC
Japanese companies active in food ... Gunji said SMBC will also focus on property and project financing in Malaysia, particularly big-ticket items such as the high-speed rail project between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. Some Malaysian media reports have ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Rises as a Free-Trade Leader as the U.S. Sinks
But there’s a fourth reason for Japan’s recent enthusiasm for free trade -- the increasing importance of intellectual property in rich-country exports. This phenomenon has mostly flown under the radar, but is slowly changing the whole way that ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly passes ordinance against passive smoking aimed at protecting children
a first by a local government in Japan that obliges citizens to make efforts to ban smoking on private property, is largely nonbinding and will come into force next April. Although the ordinance does not include punishment for violators, Tokyo’s effort ... ( read original story ...)