Great benefits point to opportunity

		No foreign ownership restrictions
		Landlord friendly rental laws & customs
		Great tenant search system & network
		High demand rental property
		Low rental income tax
		Low capital gain tax
		Secure political and investment climate

Tokyo's GDP and population are the largest in the world
The area centered around Tokyo, including Chiba, Kanagawa, and Saitama prefectures, represents the most populous metropolitan area in the world. The Greater Tokyo Area comprises a population of over 35 million people. It has been the world's most populous urban area since the mid-nineteen-sixties. Despite Japan's declining population, Tokyo continues to grow. Tokyo produces the largest gross domestic product (GDP) of any metropolis in the world. The GDP of the greater Tokyo area is even greater than Canada, the 9th largest country GDP in the world. Tokyo held title as the world's most expensive city for over a decade, from 1992 through 2005. Japan is the 2nd largest economy in the world, after the United States.

Benefiting from expanding Asian economies
You likely know that Asia represents the most dynamic economic growth region in the world. Including China and India, the totality of Asia represents almost half of the world's population. Japan is in a great position to reap the many benefits gained from offering technical expertise, production know-how, and the resulting hi-tech products to emerging growth countries like India, China and Vietnam. In fact, Japan's largest trading partner is no longer the U.S. Japan now counts China as its largest partner, and growing. Though Asian developing countries take some business away from Japan, there is much more of a synergistic benefit to Japan from Asian country regional growth and expansion.

Japan is a large benefactor. One reason for Japan's more recent GDP and economic pickup is due to tremendous Asian demand for a wide variety of Japanese produced goods and materials. There is great need for high quality steel, construction machines, factory robots, environmental equipment, and many other items for which Japan offers expertise. Japan is a country that will continue to gain advantages from the growth of China, India and elsewhere.

The city's foundation supports the value of properties
Tokyo has the most advanced public transportation system in the world. The subway is clean, safe, and famous for precision "on time" arrivals & departures. The subway and railway systems compliment each other. Together they permeate the entire Greater Tokyo Area and branch out beyond Tokyo to connect to outlying suburbs. Central Tokyo also has 50,000 super clean taxis operating 24 hours a day. All taxis come with driver-operated doors. Knowledgeable taxi drivers are instilled to provide a professional and courteous service.

The vast majority of Tokyo's workforce relies on public transportation. An often sited complaint about Tokyo lifestyle is the railroad and subway "rush hour crowd". Yet in today's world, Tokyo's mass transit system is the envy of most cities around the world. More than ever, environmental issues demand metropolises to save energy and conserve on carbon emissions in order to use resources wisely to counter greenhouse affects. Tokyo has efficiently planned to that end. Even the compact size of Tokyo residential housing does a lot to save energy (though many Tokyo residents wish they lived in larger living spaces).

Since Japan does not have an abundance of natural resources, the government has worked very hard and long with domestic companies to seriously tackle an array of energy efficiency issues. Japan has now become a leader in the field of "energy savings" technologies, with some of the most advanced technologies available. Due to such advances, Japan boasts the highest "energy efficiency rate" in the world. The public transportation system, coupled with an energy efficient society - supported by leading technologies, all point to a positive future for Tokyo. While cities worldwide are only now realizing the urgent need to grapple with the current era of high energy costs, Tokyo seriously began tackling energy issues decades ago.

Tokyo has the edge over competing Asian cities, not only due to its economic breadth and size, but also due to its well thought out infrastructure which so efficiently serves the mass population. The overall concept has proven to be superior.