Politics
Japan Shelves Foreign Property-Buying Curbs, and Conservatives Feel Betrayed
The government reportedly decided to hold off on restricting foreign nationals from buying apartments, citing concern that such rules might 'amount to discrimination.' Conservative commenters who had expected action from the Takaichi government treated it as a broken promise, argued the curbs are really about national security and reciprocity, and tied the decision to fears that speculative foreign buyers are pricing locals out of housing.
