One in three municipalities in Japan plans to introduce restrictions on top of the ... 62.7% of respondents said in a Nikkei poll of around 100 home-sharers. Some 72.5% said they have no permit, and 27.5% said they will stop renting out their properties ... ( read original story ...)
US eyes tariffs to punish China for intellectual property theft
The office has asked nations such as Japan, which has long opposed China's intellectual property practices, to synchronize their policies. But Tokyo rejected the proposal, saying hard-line policies will be difficult to adopt since Japan has no law ... ( read original story ...)
How to play Japan’s demographic decline
Assuming the Japanese government are successful areas that are likely do well include hotels that are funded through private equity and property development, notes Perdon. -Calling time on Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon’s big premium The tourism boom has ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Went to Jared
The Japanese firm owns 23 percent of the building through limited ... The Real Deal has learned. The 204,000-square-foot property, which has remained vacant for over a year, is part of the complex being developed by Kushner Companies, RFR Realty and ... ( read original story ...)
Kushner family business sold $103 million Brooklyn property to firm linked to Japan
Two months after Jared Kushner joined the White House as a senior adviser, his family firm sold a stake in a Brooklyn building to a unit of a company whose largest shareholder is the government of Japan. The buyer of record in the $103-million deal for 175 ... ( read original story ...)
Straits Trading acquires S$12.2m stake in Saitama residential property
SINGAPORE (March 15): The Straits Trading Company has taken a stake in a residential property in Higashi Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan, via the Savills IM Japan Residential Fund. The property was completed in March and comprises 134 apartment units with a ... ( read original story ...)
UAE Intellectual Property Awareness Drive spearheaded by the Japan External Trade Organization
DUBAI, DUBAI, UAE, March 1, 2018 / EINPresswire.com / -- The Middle East Intellectual Property Group (ME-IPG) of Japan are conducting an education drive as part of their commitment to the fight against counterfeit goods. The events will be held at Festival ... ( read original story ...)
30 years after government apology, Japanese-Canadian woman remembers her role in it
"Like all Japanese-Canadians, they were incarcerated, removed from their homes and communities," she said. "Their property was confiscated and sold." Her father owned a restaurant in Vancouver that he was forced to abandon. It had been on the corner of ... ( read original story ...)
Australia’s immigration debate flares up over property prices
While policymakers in countries such as Japan, China and South Korea brace for declining populations due to low birth rates, Australia is on track for a demographic explosion. Government figures released in December showed the number of people living in ... ( read original story ...)
Olympics attendees in Tokyo may chat with a talking bubble device straight out of a comic book
Speech bubbles are popping straight out of comic books and possibly into the next Olympic Games in Tokyo. The Fukidashi is a translation device created by Panasonic's artificial intelligence group and 100BANCH, a Tokyo-based accelerator. It's purposefully ... ( read original story ...)
United mistakenly flies Kansas City-bound dog on 10,000-KM trip to Japan
United Airlines is investigating how the German shepherd, named Irgo, was loaded onto an international flight to Japan, instead of a domestic flight to Missouri. According to NBC News, Kara Swindle and her two children flew Tuesday from Oregon to Kansas City. ( read original story ...)
Singapore Still World’s Costliest City; Paris, Zurich Second
After 31 Top Defaulters Flee, India Seeks to Shut the Gates Bandhan Bank IPO: Here’s All You Need To Know Gorakhpur ... cities identified in the report released this week. Tokyo and Osaka were conspicuous in their absence from the top 10, edged out ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong ranks fourth in Worldwide Cost of Living report
Asia is now home to three of the 10 most expensive cities in the world, down from five last year, as Japan’s Tokyo and Osaka were pushed out of the top ... China contributed the most non-US Initial Public Offerings (IPO) to the New York Stock Exchange ... ( read original story ...)
Japan finance minister to skip G20, attend parliamentary debate on controversial land sale: source
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso will not attend the Group of 20 finance leaders’ meeting in Buenos Aires next week due to parliamentary wrangling over altered documents in a suspected favoritism scandal, a ruling party source told ... ( read original story ...)
Japan PM’s office knew of possible problems with land deal documents
A ruling party source told Reuters on Thursday that Aso would not attend a meeting of Group of 20 finance leaders in Buenos Aires next week amid the wrangling in parliament. Japan is seeking exemptions from import tariffs planned by U.S. President Donald ... ( read original story ...)
Amazon Japan investigated for demanding ‘cooperation payments’
The regulator intends to clarify the details of the payment procedures. Amazon Japan said on Thursday that it is "fully cooperating" with the investigation. In February, Nikkei reported that Amazon Japan was seeking payments from its suppliers to cover the ... ( read original story ...)