The initiative aims to simplify property transactions for foreign buyers by using blockchain rails to overcome legal and regulatory hurdles.

Japanese equity prices hit a historic record last month. The Nikkei 225 benchmark finally surpassed the 1989 peak, reached during the country’s economic bubble era.

China’s economy today bears an unsettling resemblance to Japan’s in the 1990s, when the collapse of a housing bubble led to ...

With property having been commonly used as collateral, this left banks with nonperforming loans and a capital shortfall, triggering a prolonged period of stagnation. for the Japanese economy.

The house that property consultant and ghost investigator Kazutoshi Kodama regularly surveys has a grim history: seven years ...

Gates Inc. is tokenizing $75M in Tokyo real estate via Oasys blockchain, aiming to simplify access for foreign investors and ...

China’s balance sheet problems are so grave that they remind Ray Dalio of Japan's asset bubble right before the onset of its decades-long economic crisis. The founder of Bridgewater, one of the ...

However, the land bubble was inflated by a mountain of debt, with property loans from non-bank lenders growing from 22 trillion yen in 1985 to 80 trillion yen at the end of 1989.

But in China, the reemergence of Japan from this extended malaise is being watched with close concern. Like Japan in the 1990s, China is now staring down a property-market collapse.

Unlike Japan during its lost decades after the collapse of its property bubble, China faces its own significant structural challenges.

Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index is on track for a record year-end close, finally surpassing a mark reached 35 years ago during the country’s 1980s economic bubble.

Add to that slowing GDP growth and falling inflation, and a prolonged period of stagnation and deflation, triggered by a property-bubble collapse, seems increasingly likely. TOKYO – Recent economic ...