I can chat or mail you details but basically they lie about so much of their buildings that many banks won't deal with them anymore.There are more reputable brokers who work with foreigners  (or if you speak Japanese many more) the ones I know are all Tokyo based but happy to recommend a few.

We do use the sticky pads inside, no mice yet, just a few Japanese Ladybugs.We did have chipmunks take us residence in a wall during the rehab so we left a radio on against that wall & they have never returned.

For example how many of you know that what the Japanese are doing with their interest rates could have a significant impact on our banking industry because they stop buying Treasuries.

I see you specialize in Japanese property - I will get in touch with you offline.

Right now I am looking at Japanese real estate and have noticed that there are 2 pretty big Canadian banks in japan, RBC and Scotiabank, do you think it would be possible to obtain a loan via one of those?

I lived in Japan for a few years and would love to host some Japanese kids while also keeping my Japanese language proficient.

And in fact the larger Asian populations were Japanese some of my life long best friends to this day were original Japanese families in the valley.Schools were good in the area but they were also basically brand new as were the communities there was no inner city stuff and it was middle of the road in values etc.Next came 70 and 80 and the advent of the personal computer..

In Austria and Germany it used to be common to take out multiple loans to build a house, some outside of Euro i.e. in Japanese yen to hedge against rate hikes and even benefit from currency differences.

@Jonathan Tang  little more to it in the timber business lest you buy a christmas tree farm..its not like looking in a catalog :)  but either way that was the concept.we made 500k on deals that we put no money into.. all in 90 days.. but that was when the J log  Japanese grade log  was selling for 1200 a MBF  it crashed along with the japanese economy so its not what it was.. but its come back strong on the domestic side with all this building and natural disasters  CA fires  and Houston flood.. although the flood is more a boon to sheetrock companies

There are loads of woodworking resources to help you online with this, but I use two double-sided Japanese wetstones in 1000/4000 and 3000/8000 with a Robert Larson honing guide for this2.