Monthly Archives: May 2015

Empty Houses, Empty Assessments

We keep hearing that there are a lot of vacant houses and that this is a problem. Nobody wants to live in them. So it would be reasonable for the owners to tear them down and sell the land. But … Continue reading

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Lowering the Bar

I was formatting some material in double columns (Japanese and English side by side) for easy comparison and thought to include PM Abe’s October 2014 address to the International Bar Association. Which meant reading it. Two interesting points: First, he … Continue reading

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