Average land prices in Japan’s regional areas rose for the first time in 31 years, thanks to thriving major cities outside the three largest metropolitan areas, according to a land ministry ...

It says, as of January 1, the price of land along major streets at about 320,000 locations was up 2.3 percent from the year prior. The year-on-year increase was the largest since 2010 in ...

Residential land prices in central Tokyo have seen some of the most marked increases. Prices in the capital's 23 wards were up 4.8 percent on average from a year earlier, and the pace of increase ...