Tag: property

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)