The cheapest debt in the world!!
2020年2月12日 Investment Highlights
Several months ago, a guy who is representing middle eastern investors asked me,”Are there any opportunities of project finance, as we can finance a project, our interest rate is three percent, quite cheep!” “Listen, unfortunately, no one would borrow money from you, as nowadays, Japanese interest rates are quite cheep, 1-2 percent maximum, even below …
How serious you are about M&A
2020年2月11日 Market Trend
How serious you are about M&A I met a young guy from Japan M&A center to pursue the opportunities of excellent deals. One of the strengths of their business model is mandate from the seller. They have been exclusively got the sales right from serious buyers. So far they are pioneer and dominating in …
Haru-Kiru Detail oriented craftman
2020年2月9日 Japanese Culture
This Youtuber’s name is Haru-Kiru, in Japanese,this means cut and paste. He was the graduate of fine art department and based on his imagination, he has been working on this craft made by snack packages. Recently,many sweets companies have sent him their products and asked him to use their package to create his arts. …
Dobojo, the Jeanne d’Arc in construction cost soar
2020年2月8日 CivilEngineering
In Japanese, Doboku means civil engineering and Joshi means female or women. Now it has been a trend that female workers have been covering the lack of workers in construction and engineering industry. By taking the initial of those two Japanese words, we call those female workers Dobojo, sounds like a French word…. Especially in …
Beto Box master plan- infamous Japanese imagination-
2020年2月7日 CivilEngineering
When I was working for a German bank, we had an audit. My supervisor located in Germany covered my role and was really astonished with Japanese auditors’ questions. I told him ”Sorry, Meet Sensei-his name-, I have to say that Japanese are really detail-oriented!!”, He laughed and said, “Yes, Yuko san, they are exactly detail …
Fill in your stomach, before developing long term view
2020年2月6日 Japanese Society
Japan has been suffering from the lack of workforce, its for sure. To fulfill such deficit, non-Japanese students have come to Japan. They are coming here as students. Majority study Japanese however, some are simply aiming at working here. There are many cases where non-Japanese students have done illegal part time jobs. I used …
Workaction! Work Style innovation in Japan
2020年2月6日 Market Trend
Now, the word “Workacation” has been a trend in Japan. This means working but enjoying our holidays in vacation destination. Offices no need to be in city center, taking into account the internet working environment and technologies. Furthermore, recent lack of the work force, major companies have been keen on attracting younger generation to commit …
Akiya, Abandoned Houses, petit owners regime…
2020年2月4日 Market Trend
In 2018, abandoned houses in Japan reached to 62 million, 13 percent of existing residential stocks. Why this happened? Under aging society, poor succession policies as well as wooden structures’ functional deterioration have promoted this phenomena. On the other hand, after surviving lost decades, Japanese relatively younger generations say, 30-50es, have started real estate investments. …
Genius artist lived in the same era as did Davinci
2020年2月3日 Uncategorized
You should not live on Ikebana, this is the principle motto that our Souami Ikebana school master needs to follow. Thus, he has two occupations, one is Ikebana teaching and the other is painting. Our master mentioned following as his new year speech. Last year was the five hundred celebration year since Leonard DaVinci died. …
RICS Annual Dinner in Tokyo
2020年2月1日 Events
It was in 2009 when I first started RICS as the working group to set up the Japan chapter. Twice of three times in a year, I ve got involve in arranging several events for commercial property professionals. It has been my learning and exploring path as professional and expanding my network not only in …
