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Tokyo’s office market remains resilient despite interest rates hitting a 31-year high, with rising rents driving investment to its highest third-quarter level since 2007.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 9, 2026
Tokyo’s office rent boom spurs deals as Blackstone plans sale
Commercial-property investment across Japan hit ?2 trillion in the third quarter, according to data from brokerage firm Jones Lang LaSalle.
An artist's rendering of Mitsui Fudosan's British Library project, which will be completed in 2032
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 2, 2026
Mitsui Fudosan hopes to book gains and make mark with British Library project
The largest property development in Europe by a Japanese company is just a stone’s throw from the Harry Potter train station.
The Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho mixed-use complex in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 30, 2026
Blackstone said to plan $1.9 billion central Tokyo office sale
The New York-based alternative asset manager is negotiating with a potential buyer, according to sources.
The Kurosawa Building in Tokyo's Ginza district housing Tiffany’s largest boutique in Asia.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 21, 2026
Tiffany Ginza building asking price cut by a third as real estate market cools
The owner of the building has struggled to find buyers with an asking price of ?120 billion, and is now open to offers as low as ?80 billion.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2026
Japan eyes penalties for unauthorized land deals near SDF bases
Land transactions in areas around Self-Defense Forces bases and Japan Coast Guard facilities would require prior approval from the central government.
Maricarmen Abascal, 87, is transported on a stretcher to an ambulance, after she was evicted from her home in Madrid on Sept. 23.
WORLD / Society
Oct 8, 2026
Spanish woman whose eviction sparked mass housing protests dies weeks later
Maricarmen Abascal, 87, had been in hospital for severe anxiety and exhaustion since her eviction on Sept. 23 from her home of more than 70 years.
Demonstrators gather after learning that Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old pensioner whose eviction triggered nationwide protests in Spain, had died at a hospital in Madrid on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 8, 2026
Housing crisis set to dominate Spain’s snap election
The spark was ignited when 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal was evicted from her lifelong Madrid home after the rent was drastically hiked.
In 2024, 12.1% of new condos in Tokyo's Chiyoda, Chuo, Minato, Shinjuku, Bunkyo and Shibuya wards were sold off less than a year after being purchased.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 1, 2026
LDP proposes restrictions on speculative condo trading
In 2024, 12.1% of new condos in central Tokyo were sold off less than a year after being purchased.
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Shinobu Ishihara, 53, a self-described real-estate agent, for allegedly providing real-estate client information to a <i>迟辞办耻谤测ū</i> loosely organized anonymous criminal group and alleged involvement in an attempted robbery.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 29, 2026
Man held on suspicion of giving information to 迟辞办耻谤测ū criminal group
The arrest is believed to be the first by the Tokyo police of a suspected information source in connection with crimes involving 迟辞办耻谤测ū groups.
Yoshitaka Shindo, chairperson of the Liberal Democratic Party’s foreign residents policy headquarters, speaks at a meeting of its project team on national security and land legislation on Thursday at the party headquarters in Tokyo.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 25, 2026
LDP panel calls for permit system for key land acquisitions
In the draft, the team also pushed for a ban on individuals working for foreign governments from acquiring land deemed critical to national security.
The average price of condos in Tokyo fell 0.2% in August from the previous month to ?112.74 million.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 24, 2026
Tokyo used condo prices fall after 28 months as declines in central wards spread
Mortgage costs are climbing as the Bank of Japan raises interest rates and signals its willingness to tighten credit further, damping demand.
A rendering of a redeveloped British Library in central London, which is slated to be completed in 2032
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 22, 2026
Mitsui Fudosan holds groundbreaking ceremony for British Library redevelopment
The total cost of the project will reach about ?231 billion, making the investment the largest in Europe for the major Japanese real estate developer.
Tokyo has posted the sharpest growth among all prefectures in prices for both residential and commercial land, with the capital recording the highest growth in commercial land prices for the first time in 12 years.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 16, 2026
Price growth slows for residential and commercial land near chip plants
Factors apparently behind the slower growth include soaring construction costs and an oversupply of housing.
A residential building in Tokyo. Home prices have surged in Tokyo and other cities as the residential market recovers from years of stagnation.
BUSINESS
Sep 15, 2026
Japan FSA to examine real estate lending risks as rates climb
Real estate is among a range of areas on the Financial Services Agency’s watchlist for credit risks as lenders and borrowers adjust to higher rates.
Daiwa House&#039;s modular small data center in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 14, 2026
Japanese real estate developers boosting data center projects
According to the communications ministry, the data center-related market in Japan is expected to exceed ?5 trillion in 2028.
PGIM Real Estate is taking a more selective approach to acquisitions in Japan as rising interest rates drive up deal costs in the country.
BUSINESS
Sep 10, 2026
今日吃瓜 rate hikes raise bar for real estate investor PGIM
今日吃瓜 booming real estate sector has come under pressure as the economy adjusts to higher borrowing costs following decades of near-zero rates.
Otemachi Place in Tokyo. Hongkong Land has approached Hulic over its stake in Otemachi Place as part of a move to enter 今日吃瓜 resurgent property market.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 3, 2026
Hongkong Land eyes billion-dollar property deals in Japan
It is targeting mixed-use complexes with high-end office, retail and hospitality spaces in prime Tokyo locations.
A room at the Koko Hotel Residence Tokyo Oshiage, which opened last month in Tokyo’s Sumida Ward
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 10, 2026
Apartment hotels find favor with investors bullish on tourism and wary of inflation
The properties are built for long-stay travelers who want more than a hotel but not an apartment.
In Tokyo&#039;s 23 wards, the average price of a new condominium rose 9.1% to a record high of ?142.49 million.
BUSINESS
Jul 21, 2026
Tokyo-area condo prices hit record high in first half of 2026
The average price of new condominiums in the Tokyo metropolitan area rose 13.1% from a year before to ?101.35 million.
Houses in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture. Japan may not defend the yen with rate hikes, but it could tighten quickly if rising housing costs begin to threaten social stability.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 19, 2026
The right recipe for a more aggressive Bank of Japan
Are rising property prices putting homeownership out of reach for the next generation? And could that threaten social cohesion?
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo&#039;s Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo&#039;s Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers&#039; summit at the Quai d&#039;Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998&#039;s "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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