Tag: property

Just six months remain until what promises to be one of the biggest shake-ups ever to hit Japan’s accommodation industry, as a new law passed this year legalizing room-sharing – so called minpaku, or vacation rentals – goes into effect in June. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (TR) – Investigative sources with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police believe that a man who used a sword to fatally stab his sister, the chief priestess at a shrine in Koto Ward, rented a nearby apartment beforehand to track her movements, reports ... ( read original story ...)

A medium-range ballistic missile target is launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii, on Aug. 29, 2017 © Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Japan’s defense ministry has requested additional funding to scout potential deployment sites ... ( read original story ...)

Norway’s $1tn oil fund is eyeing further property deals in Tokyo after making its first real estate investment in Asia. The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund has been scouring the region since 2015 for property but concluded its first deal only on ... ( read original story ...)

From here, you can see what feels like the entire city of Tokyo, with its sweeping vistas. Along with extraordinary service, this property offers public areas that complement its understated rooms, each with the latest and greatest tech amenities ... ( read original story ...)

Local governments throughout Japan have had to address this problem as society has ... but the interested party still has to make an appointment to inspect the property and submit all the proper paperwork beforehand. The UR site may indicate that people ... ( read original story ...)

KUALA LUMPUR: Titijaya Land Bhd has roped in Japanese leading property giant, Tokyu Land Corp, to be the new shareholder of its wholly-owned Epoch Property Sdn Bhd in a RM47 million deal. Epoch Property sealed a conditional share subscription agreement ... ( read original story ...)

There are no tall buildings obscuring the view, and there never will be, so our views really do take in the best of Tokyo. 2. I know that you describe this area and property as intertwining traditional and Western cultures – tell me about some of the ... ( read original story ...)

During the Osaka leg of my trip to the Kansai region, I stayed at the Hotel Il Monte. Exhausted from a long overnight flight from Singapore, I checked in at around 10am and was relieved to find the property accommodating my check-in request. Hotel Il Monte ... ( read original story ...)

Japan expressed strong regret Friday over San Francisco’s decision to give city property status to a statue commemorating Asian women who worked in military brothels for Japanese troops during World War II, with Osaka declaring it will terminate its 60 ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA – Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura will end Osaka’s six-decade sister city relationship with San Francisco after the mayor of the U.S. city, Edwin Lee, signed a resolution Wednesday that designates as city property a memorial to “comfort women ... ( read original story ...)

The mayor of Japan's second city of Osaka said November 24 he would end sister-city relations with San Francisco after the US TOKYO (AP) — Japan expressed strong regret Friday over San Francisco's decision to give city property status to a statue ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO—Japan expressed strong regret Friday over San Francisco’s decision to give city property status to a statue commemorating Asian women who worked in military brothels for Japanese troops during World War II, with Osaka declaring it will terminate ... ( read original story ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)