Palette Town to close this year
Odaiba’s Palette Town shopping mall is closing its doors at the end of December 2021. Live music venue Zepp Tokyo will close on January 1, 2022, and the VenusFort mall will close on March 27, 2022.
Togo Murano-designed building in Kyushu to be restored
The Fukuoka-Hibiki Shinkin Bank in Kitakyushu City has narrowly avoided demolition and will be restored by the Bank owner.
Outdoor lifestyle brand to open hot spring resort
Japanese outdoor lifestyle brand Snow Peak is opening a hot spring resort in their hometown of Sanjo City, Niigata.
30-story apartment tower in Fukuoka to be demolished
A high-rise apartment building in Fukuoka City is going to be demolished six years after it was discovered to be affected by the data falsification scandal surrounding rubber used in the base-isolation of buildings.
Central Tokyo apartment sale prices up 30% in June
The second-hand apartment market across greater Tokyo continued to see shrinking inventory and rising sale prices in June.
Foreign buyers targeted by fraudulent investment property scams
In May the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper ran a series of reports on property investment scams targeting foreign residents in Tokyo. This is a continuation of the ongoing reporting by newspapers into the fraudulent loans on so-called investment properties that have, until now, focused on Japanese buyers.