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 ...)
Hotel Review: Hotel Il Monte Osaka – Walking Distance to Osaka and Namba Stations
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 protests San Francisco’s decision on ‘sex slave’ statue
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 mayor to terminate six-decade ties as San Francisco designates ‘comfort women’ memorial city property
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 ...)
Japan protests San Francisco’s ‘sex slave’ statue decision
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 ...)
Japan to scrap sister-city relationship with San Francisco over ‘comfort women’ statue
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 ...)
Raze, rebuild, repeat: why Japan knocks down its houses after 30 years
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 ...)