The rooms of Harumi Flag, a large-scale residence in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, which was used as an athletes' village for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, are being resold one after another. Harumi Flag, ... ( read original story ...)
AI will test faith in democracy, Tokyo warns
Visitors to a Tokyo trade show in March try out an AI-powered customer ... protection of intellectual property rights and security. According to people familiar with the document, the draft of the ... ( read original story ...)
Laughing out loud at the property tax for our ridiculously cheap Japanese country house【SoraHouse】
With the winter chill now completely gone, though, we’re looking forward to heading back up to the SoraHouse and continuing the various projects necessary to make it a home. But before we’ve had a ... ( read original story ...)
Rishi Sunak announces major defence pact with Japan and £18bn of new investment
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak touched down in Hiroshima this morning for the latest meeting of the G7, making him the first British Prime Minister to visit the city best known for being obliterated by a ... ( read original story ...)
Japan to invest almost £18bn in UK
Rishi Sunak is visiting the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, where he will be discussing with other nations about ways to stimulate economic development. Ukraine and the Indo-Pacific region will also ... ( read original story ...)
Rishi Sunak arrives in Japan to announce defence pact
On Thursday, Sunak also visited a naval base and then hosted a UK business summit in Tokyo for Japanese corporations including Toshiba, Sumitomo and Mitsubishi, claiming they are committing £18bn of ... ( read original story ...)
Bethesda property tech firm Brivo lands $92 million in equity funding, eyes M&A
Bethesda-based property technology firm Brivo Inc. has landed a $92 million equity investment from the multi-billion-dollar Tokyo security company Secom Co. Ltd. The funding deal, announced Wednesday, ... ( read original story ...)
He made US$950 million finding successors for Japan’s ageing business owners using AI
Shunsaku Sagami, 32, founded M&A Research Institute in 2018 to help the ageing owners of small and medium-sized businesses whose companies are forced to close when there’s no one available to take ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Retail Property Market Upticks in Early 2023
According to CBRE, Japan's national department store sales in the January-March quarter of 2023 was up by 14.2% year-over-year. The growth was driven by a double-digit increase in the number of ... ( read original story ...)
Gaw Capital eyes more Japan property deals amid high expectations for TSMC’s chip factories
Gaw already manages US$3.8 billion of property assets in Japan and has begun a search on the western island of Kyushu. ( read original story ...)
Want to buy a cheap house in rural Japan? This millennial farmer offers his advice
If you can't speak the language, you can't get along with your neighbors … communication is very difficult," said Lee Xian Jie. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo teacher sent to prosecutors for murder, likely laden with debt
Kosuke Omoto, 36, allegedly stabbed to death Masafumi Yamagishi, 63, at the latter's home in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward ... during questioning before his arrest that he had been in the property before as he ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s Gaw Eyes More Japan Property Deals on TSMC Push
Hong Kong-based private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners is keen on real estate deals in Japan’s western island of Kyushu, citing the opportunity that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. factories ... ( read original story ...)
S’porean man, 33, buys old house in Japan for S$30,000 & remakes it into a guesthouse
A Singaporean man, Lee Xian Jie, 33, bought a home in rural Japan for S$30,000. His story has been documented in various chats, interviews, and most recently, hashed out in more detail in The Straits ... ( read original story ...)
The true price of a Japanese cinema ticket
From June, the price of watching a film at Japan’s biggest cinema chain, Toho, will rise by ¥ 100 ($.074): a hike of between 5 to 8 per cent depending on the type of ticket. Not wallet-shredding or ... ( read original story ...)
Baker McKenzie and Withers Eye Big Mandates From Global PE Firms’ Newly-Established Real Estate Teams in Japan
Attracted by high yield spreads with Japan’s low interest rates, many global private equity funds are building out their teams to incorporate real estate into their strategy. ( read original story ...)