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EDITORIALS
Sep 25, 2010

Adding value to real estate

Land prices across Japan fell in the year ended July 1 at 21,457, or 98.5 percent, of the 21,786 locations surveyed annually by the land and infrastructure ministry. There was almost no improvement from the previous one-year period, when Japan was hit by the global recession and land prices showed a...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 5, 2010

Niseko's real estate boom: Bigger picture in sight for local development

For some it was a flash in the pan, at best an experiment destined to fail, at worst a mini-bubble hyper-inflated by greedy "outsiders" with little interest other than the type accumulating in the bank.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
May 17, 2009

Lay-judge drama, exotic real estate, and Kimutaku's 'Mr. Brain'

The new lay judge system starts on May 21, so it's not surprising that somebody decided to make a two-hour suspense drama to mark the occasion. However, the subtitle of "Hotei Suspense" ("Trial Suspense"; TBS, Mon., 9 p.m.) sounds like this might not be the best way to promote the new system: "Do you...
BUSINESS
Oct 26, 2008

Japan Post sets eyes on real estate development

Japan Post Holdings Co., with $30 billion' worth of properties across the nation, will redevelop sites in central Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya as it turns to real estate as a new source of profit, a company official said.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Nov 25, 2007

'Best Hit' awards; Kyosen Ohashi tour of Japan; affordable rural real estate

The fifth annual "Best Hit Kayosai (Best Hit Pop Song Festival)" will be broadcast live Monday night at 9 p.m. on the Yomiuri Television network (Nihon TV in Tokyo) from the Osaka Festival Hall.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Feb 14, 2007

From rackets to real estate, yakuza multifaceted

The yakuza have long played a powerful, if often unseen, role in society. Romanticized in literature and film as noble outcasts replete with punch-perms, extensive tattoos and severed pinkies, the underworld is one of archaic language and secretive rituals and customs as well as extreme violence and...
BUSINESS
Jan 18, 2003

Hazama to split into building, real estate companies Oct. 1

Struggling contractor Hazama Corp. released on Friday a three-year reconstruction plan under which it will split itself into two firms, while its president expressed a willingness to conduct management integration with other unspecified builders.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 1998

Gallows urged for real-estate broker

Prosecutors demanded capital punishment Thursday for a real estate broker on trial for killing an 82-year-old woman and his alleged 38-year-old male accomplice for money in 1989.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 8, 2023

Singapore’s soaring rents are becoming a political problem

For the ruling People’s Action Party, solving the housing problem is crucial as the party navigates succession.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 27, 2023

Average price of Tokyo-area condos hit record high in 2022

The figure grew 0.4% from the previous year to ¥62.88 million amid soaring materials prices chiefly reflecting the yen's weakening.
BUSINESS
May 22, 2010

Mitsubishi Estate plans U.S. property fund, takeovers

Mitsubishi Estate Co., Japan's biggest property developer by market value, said it will set up a real estate fund in the U.S. this year and seek takeovers overseas to counter declining demand at home.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2012

Mitsubishi Estate raises ¥11.2 billion to purchase four properties for REIT

Mitsubishi Estate Co. raised ¥11.2 billion to buy four properties in Tokyo for its private real estate investment trust.
BUSINESS
Aug 2, 2011

Mitsubishi Estate to upsize fund, target pensions

Mitsubishi Estate Co., the nation's largest developer by market value, plans to expand a property fund that targets pension investors to help boost its asset-management business.
BUSINESS
Mar 15, 2008

Mitsubishi Estate eyes property manager M&As

Mitsubishi Estate Co., Japan's largest developer by value, may buy property managers to more than double assets under management to ¥4 trillion ($40 billion) within six years as Tokyo commercial rents slow.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 23, 2021

As climate change push grows, Japanese firms accelerate shift to renewable energy

Major companies are moving up their timelines to shift to renewables, as the need to be environmentally friendly is becoming a key factor in expanding their businesses.
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2002

Mitsubishi Estate expects big losses

Mitsubishi Estate Co. said Tuesday it anticipates a consolidated net loss of 72.5 billion yen in the business year through March, a reversal from an earlier forecast profit of 20.5 billion yen, as it will write off latent losses on real estate holdings.
EDITORIALS
Mar 8, 2012

The real 'China threat'

Considerable attention has been devoted to the threat seemingly posed by the growth of China's power and influence. It seems like every week the country is marking some new "first" in its military modernization program, all of which are said to be underwritten by a desire to become the pre-eminent power...
BUSINESS
Jun 25, 2011

Mitsubishi Estate to spend big this year

Mitsubishi Estate Co. this year will start using a quarter of the ¥600 billion it plans to invest by 2014 to redevelop Tokyo's most expensive business district.
BUSINESS
Mar 26, 2008

Mitsubishi Estate to buy Resona HQ for ¥162 billion

Resona Holdings Inc. said Tuesday it will sell its Tokyo head office building to Mitsubishi Estate Co. for ¥162 billion in Japan's biggest real estate transaction this year.
JAPAN
Nov 26, 1997

Mitsubishi Estate, Hitachi raided over payoffs

The Metropolitan Police Department raided the head offices of Mitsubishi Estate Co. and Hitachi Ltd. on Wednesday over alleged illegal payoffs to a "sokaiya" corporate extortionist.
BUSINESS
Jun 2, 2011

Mitsubishi Estate targets 17% gain in operating profit by March 2014

Mitsubishi Estate Co. is targeting an increase of 17 percent in operating profit in three years as it redevelops buildings in central Tokyo and expands overseas.

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