Tag: property

OSAKA (TR) – Osaka Prefectural Police have arrested six persons, including a corporate executive, for allegedly dumping the body of a former gang member found buried on a property in Izumi City, reports Mainichi Broadcasting System (June 1). In the ... ( read original story ...)

It only formed 0.1% of the company's portfolio by asset value. According to OCBC investment research, Starhill Global REIT (SGREIT) recently divested its entire beneficial interests in the Harajuku Secondo Property for a cash consideration of JPY410.2m ($5 ... ( read original story ...)

But for Mr Xi another historical event from the same era may warrant more immediate attention. It is just over 30 years since Japan began inflating a property and stock market bubble whose implosion ravaged public confidence, cowed corporations and scarred ... ( read original story ...)

SENDAI – An anonymous person has willed roughly ¥40 million in savings and about ¥17 million in property to Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures on the condition the funds be used to support those orphaned by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. ( read original story ...)

the property tax levied on land used for indoor farming averaged 12,000 yen ($107) per 10 ares for the year through March 2016. That is more than 10 times the 1,000 yen rate for farmland. Industry backers, including the Japan Chamber of Commerce and ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's working-age population peaked in 1995 at 87 million ... They are also being sought by property developers, food and beverage makers and hotel chains. The Hen na Hotel, or the 'Odd Hotel,' near Tokyo Disneyland, for example, bills itself as a ... ( read original story ...)

When one thinks of overseas property investments, the UK -- and London in particular -- is probably the first destination that comes to mind for most well-to-do Thai investors. In reality, there are several other residential markets outside Thailand that ... ( read original story ...)

Demand for condominiums in Osaka is growing, not just from wealthy people but from family households, with the increasing supply of affordable rooms, in stark contrast to falling demand for property in central Tokyo. The number of new condos listed for ... ( read original story ...)

Shinto elders at the centuries-old Unesco World Heritage Site of Shimogamo Shrine upset some neighbors when they bulldozed a swath of old Kyoto forest to build an apartment complex with units selling for more than $2 million apiece. “They should call it ... ( read original story ...)

BACKGROUND: Opened in 2009, the Shangri-La Hotel, Tokyo is the Hong Kong-based hotel brand’s first property in Japan. The hotel takes up the 28th through 39th floors of the Marunouchi Trust Tower, directly behind Tokyo Station. My morning view over Tokyo ... ( read original story ...)

Walking around urban Japan, I feel like I am seeing a society that is several steps closer to that ideal than the United States. You may have heard that Japan is a government-directed society, and in many ways it is. But in terms of the constituents of ... ( read original story ...)

It looks like the site of a long-closed restaurant in Cambridge could be demolished, with affordable housing being built in its space. Wicked Local Cambridge is reporting that the City Council has voted to have the city manager look into the feasibility of ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese investments are flowing significantly once again into property purchases and real estate vehicles in the United States, at a rate unseen since the days before the savings-and-loan crisis. From January to February, Japanese real estate purchases ... ( read original story ...)

Qyresearchreports include new market research report "United States, EU, Japan, China, India and Southeast Asia Intellectual Property Rights & Royalty Management? Market Size, Status and Forecast 2021" to its huge collection of research reports. This ... ( read original story ...)

The property is to open its doors in 2022 and will be Hoshino's second-largest location. But this seemingly ideal site comes with a long and freighted history: The Airin district, Osaka's skid row, is right nearby. The Festival Gate development blending an ... ( read original story ...)

But while all of this is going on, noninstitutional investors are finding their way here also. A Japanese-run property brokerage house, Seven Seas Properties Corp., has been successfully marketing Philippine real estate to its Japanese clients for some ... ( read original story ...)