Especially in Missouri they are going after charcoal rot and Japanese Beetles on beans. 

Maybe even look at how life came back after massive natural calamities like the Japanese Tsunami or Hurricane Katrina or how lower Manhattan rolled after 9-11 even better how life worked post SARS although we in the US remained largely unimpacted.

 I remember this happened with Japanese corporate investors who bought up commercial real estate in New York City back in the 80-90s period during a market weakness at home.

However, I was playing golf with my attorney friend who owns a title company and he said that the Japanese Tax Code allows for 100% depreciation over 4 years if the apartments are mostly frame and are 25+ years old. 

And the owner of the property prior to selling to the Japanese paid 1 mil to the Resolution trust to release the participation aspect of this mortgage then promptly sold it to the Japanese company ( Owner of SEga Systems) for 110 million and kept all the up side.

One of the sponsors I've connected with sells almost all his stuff to Japanese cash flow investors and those will probably not show up on the MLS.

One has to do with dollars outside the United States coming back to the United States, and the other has to do with another currency that decides to go bargain shopping.Let's say you are Japanese, and you have both dollars that you earned in a foreign investment, and yen available to also make an investment.

The Japanese market has been worthless for over twenty years now (except for the ski resorts), so do you expect to buy from a distance?

My fantastic Japanese tenant moved out last week.

it can still be done but you need to really be sharp .... and of course its harder now that the Japanese export log went from 1200 MBF to 700MBF.. not as much gross revenue per acre as the good ole days.