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Escaping COVID-19: When you can’t see the virus for the trees

Lifestyle Dec 12, 2020

Escaping COVID-19: When you can’t see the virus for the trees

by Alex K.T. Martin

Individuals are replacing forestry companies and large corporations in efforts to buy plots of affordable forestland — but for a very different reason.

Life in your Japanese apartment doesn’t have to be a life sentence

Lifestyle May 17, 2020

Life in your Japanese apartment doesn’t have to be a life sentence

by Rebecca Saunders

Having trouble with working from home? Try delegating spaces and a few other tricks to maintain a work-life balance.

Downsized dwellings: Inside Tokyo's tiny living spaces

Lifestyle Apr 20, 2019

Downsized dwellings: Inside Tokyo's tiny living spaces

by Alex K.T. Martin

Twenty-five-year-old Sotaro Ito lives in a 9.46-square-meter apartment with a loft in the capital's retro-hip Koenji district. His apartment looks more like an office cubicle, with a desk and computer chair dominating a third of the room. A reading pillow is propped up against one ...

Leopalace21 scandal highlights the risk tenants face in Japan compared to building owners

National / Media | MEDIA MIX Feb 23, 2019

Leopalace21 scandal highlights the risk tenants face in Japan compared to building owners

by Philip Brasor

The theme of the Nippon Television series "Shiawase! Bonbi Girl" (“Happy Poor Girls”) is one of the most resilient on Japanese television: People of limited means getting by. As the title indicates, the subject is young women and one of the regular segments, "Jokyo ...

New minpaku law will alter Japan's rental and hospitality landscape

How-tos | HOME TRUTHS Apr 1, 2018

New minpaku law will alter Japan's rental and hospitality landscape

by Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku

A new law will go into effect in June to regulate minpaku, private residences rented out by their owners as short-term lodgings. To most, the new law will address changes that have occurred in recent years due to the rise of Airbnb, the ...

Doling out some truths about Japan's 'share houses'

How-tos | HOME TRUTHS Mar 4, 2018

Doling out some truths about Japan's 'share houses'

by Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku

Many Japanese people are wary of investment as a means of growing their savings. There are a variety of reasons for this caution, so most keep their money in a bank, gaining almost no interest in the process, in the hope that they won't ...

Condo management is in need of repairs

How-tos | HOME TRUTHS Feb 11, 2018

Condo management is in need of repairs

by Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku

On Dec. 18, the Supreme Court's petit bench ruled against a man from Fukuoka Prefecture who was suing the management association (kanri kumiai) of his condominium for firing him as its president of the board (rijicho) because the regulations of the association contained no ...

Beware the patter about purchasing property to rent out around Tokyo

How-tos | LIFELINES Jan 14, 2018

Beware the patter about purchasing property to rent out around Tokyo

by Daniel Brooks

At seminars targeting expat investors, don't expect to hear the whole story about Japan's rental market.

Lessons about Japan's school catchment areas

How-tos | HOME TRUTHS Dec 31, 2017

Lessons about Japan's school catchment areas

by Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku

A neighbor recently asked us to sign a petition requesting that the local education committee keep a certain elementary school open. Due to falling enrollment, students who attended the school would be transferred to a different one in the near future. Since the ...

Can a death kill property value?

How-tos | HOME TRUTHS Dec 3, 2017

Can a death kill property value?

by Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku

The apartment in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, where police found the remains of nine bodies in late October is one of 12 units in a two-story wooden apartment building located 10 minutes from Sobudai Station on the Odakyu Odawara line. Each unit consists of one ...

A gut feeling that you need an extra toilet

How-tos | HOME TRUTHS Nov 5, 2017

A gut feeling that you need an extra toilet

by Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku

Everybody knows that Japan produces the most technologically advanced toilets in the world. They pretty much do everything except pull up your pants when you're finished. And one of the more pleasant surprises greeting foreign visitors to Japan is the ubiquity and accessibility of ...

Re-registering property: The lie of the land

How-tos | HOME TRUTHS Oct 1, 2017

Re-registering property: The lie of the land

by Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku

According to an article that appeared in the Asahi Shimbun last June, authorities are unsure of the title holders to 4.1 million hectares of land in Japan — in total, an area equivalent in size to the island of Kyushu. Though this problem has ...

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