The "return" on your investment in a home in Japan is best measured in terms of the pleasure it will yield and the doorway to the intimacies of community and the Japanese mind it will lure you into.
Author and Japan hand Alex Kerr remembers the "larger than life, outrageous, tall, skinny, blond" David Kidd and the "golden age."
Considering constitutional issues and the risk of creating 'martyrs,' the current law strikes the right balance.
When houses are demolished, there is a very bad habit here of cutting down all the trees on the plot, leaving the ground cleared and empty for new construction.
One word is key to understanding why the Chinese territory's universities tend to outshine Japan's in world university rankings.
Keukenhof loves people and is totally fearless. He is also laid-back and happy to play by himself, as well as with humans or dogs.
Foreign residents can now receive a Japanese old-age pension if they have paid in for a total of at least 10 years, rather than 25 years, as was the case.
