As Japanese shares finally reclaim ... 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 ...

While buyers may be shying away from purchasing homes around akiya, some abandoned homes have caught the fancy of people wanting to buy cheap property in the Japanese countryside. And in November ...

And why did it take so long for Japan to recover from the bursting of its asset price bubble of the late 1980s? In this volume, a team from the International Monetary Fund examines the causes of the ...

Although the bursting of the bubble in Japan left the financial system saddled with large ... but it would keep people in their homes and stem the precipitous decline in property prices at the root of ...