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

REAL estate in Japan should never see another bubble. Having witnessed three in the last half a century, the second one a Godzilla-sized boom in the 1980s, investors would surely be wary and vigilant ...

First, Japan's property bubble reflected market behavior. After the bubble popped, the debt of private enterprises - the banks or developers - could be resolved through market-based methods such ...

Beijing should take note of the risks posed by a property bubble and demographic changes, says the Financial Times’ Leo Lewis. In Japanese village Nagoro, life-sized dolls outnumber the living.

Its property bubble is far broader than Japan's as it involves the local governments, the ultimate owners of the land, and the government banks, which finance the development of these lands.

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. It is not just stocks hitting ...

Land prices are rising in Japan... not just in big cities but also in rural areas. A government survey shows that the nationwide average rose 0.1 percent from a year earlier. That's the first ...

Tokyo | Japan’s sharemarket has climbed past its all-time closing high, exceeding the record level struck during the country’s late-1980s asset bubble after a 34-year wait.. The Nikkei 225 ...

At the height of its property bubble in the late 1980s, the land upon which the Tokyo’s imperial palace rested was famously more valuable at the time than the entire state of California.

In the 1980s, with the Japanese having excessive savings and an easy monetary policy, the population kept buying property. This led to a massive property bubble in the 1990s, as investors were ...

A property bubble collapse seems likelier every day. The implications for growth could be dire. Annual Japanese GDP growth amounted to 4 to 5 percent on average, from the mid-1970s through to the ...