SINGAPORE/BANGKOK – Japan’s real estate firms are entering dangerous territory. That’s the assessment of S&P Global Ratings, which said in a report Friday that the sector’s debt levels now eclipse that of the nation’s bubble era.
Remember that? It was back in the 1980s, when newspaper headlines proclaimed that the grounds of the Tokyo Imperial Palace were worth more than all of the real estate in California.
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