Download or read book A Yen for Real Estate written by Roger Farrell and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the political economy of Japanese foreign direct investment in real estate in the US, Australia, and other countries from the mid- 1980s onwards. Explains the significance of the rise and decline in Japanese real estate investment abroad during the period 1985-1994, and notes that real estate investment became a focal point of international tension between Japan and other countries. Farrell is affiliated with the Australia-Japan Research Center at the Australian National University, Australia. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR