Some 32 million foreign tourists visited Japan in 2019, before the pandemic. The travel and tourism sector then contributed more than 7% to Japan's economy, according to the World Travel & Tourism ...

As homeownership becomes increasingly expensive, we travel to Japan, where millions of abandoned houses are being sold cheaply or given away. Can foreign buyers help solve Japan's empty house problem?

Japan has been trying to fight deflation in recent years and has kept interest rates at near zero. The nose-diving yen is also a concern, although a cheap yen ... of reduced travel and supply ...