Ikea Japan is leasing a tiny home in Shinjuku, Tokyo, for 99 Japanese yen (about $0.86) a month. The compact apartment is just 107 square feet, but it comes fully kitted with Ikea furniture. There's ...

In Japan, spring isn’t just cherry blossom season and hay fever season, it’s also moving season. The vast majority of Japanese colleges start their academic year in April, and mid-year transfer ...

We in the West typically see only the top slices of Japanese aesthetics: the high-concept, glass-and-aluminum Modernism of no-expense- spared commercial projects or the steep-pitched roofs and ...

Investing in Tokyo apartments beat putting money into office buildings, malls and the domestic stock and bond markets over the past five years as a housing shortage cushioned rental incomes from years ...