that's a good point of houses sitting idle.there is a stretch of ocean front in Honolulu... were a Japanese billionaire bought about 20 ocean front poperties all in basically a row.. and never really used any of them they just sat there rotting.he got In a little twist with Japanese gov over tax's and was forced to finally sell..

Similar Japanese minivans were twice that.Pickup trucks are less awesome when you can't lock up what's in there or it rains.

I think it was Paul Allen that funded that lengthy search for a missing Japanese battleship.  

Nothing's covered it gets rained on you can't secure.I bought a Honda Element and took out the back seats it holds as much as a pickup truck it's covered secured and best of all it has Japanese reliability and gas mileage.

I would like to ask for a piece of advice if anyone has this experience.I have a studio room property in Tokyo Japan, free from any collateral, and I wonder if it can be an option to borrow money using this in US.I tried to borrow money from Japanese banks to purchase properties in US, but they didn't allow me as I didn't live in Japan.

The Philippines has been receiving a lot of money for infrastructure development by the Chinese, the US, Koreans and Japanese.

However without Japanese language skills it's generally a show stopper.

Those are metrics that favor a profitable market.I know your market got the Japanese boost as you have pointed out previously and I do believe you are experiencing and will continue to get a Chinese boost (as is much of the West Coast) but then you and I would disagree from there.

Before the Chinese it was the Japanese.

The Korean and Indians are an interesting demographics as these groups will tend to migrate towards the opportunistic states more so than the Chinese and Japanese who set their deep roots in the established mature cities like NY, LA, and San Francisco.