"Pandering", "spruiking", you seem to have a very low opinion of anyone who has any dealings with clients, regardless of their honesty or transparency. Been stung by a dodgy salesman, have we? Poor freck…practice your DD skills some more, you'll be fine.

the vast majority of our clients are actually hard working or retired mom and dad types, like ourselves. But we don't discriminate, and we don't tend to automatically assume anyone who's done well for themselves is necessarily corrupt, unlike some poor paranoid souls.

Aaaawww, touched a sore spot, have we? Grow up, freckle, the world sucks – not everybody thinks you're a genius. Love how consumer confidence is a good indication when it slips, but a sows ear when it's high, incidentally. Hypocrite much?

Awww, freckle, coming from you, that's bordering on a compliment.

if you do follow parts 2 and 3, you'll realize that I'm using us and our market merely as an example on how to setup your investing infrastructure IN YOUR MARKET OF CHOICE. Obviously, I refer to where I operate and am experienced in, as these are my best points of conjunction. I could discuss Singapore, Germany or Switzerland, as they all have similarities business environment-wise, but I have no experience there, and I don't tend to pretend to know what I don't (as some do). Rest assured, when I'll have experience on those markets, I'll use them as examples too.

in any case, I'm glad you liked the piece!

As demonstrated above, the total average PER PERSON is up – they're simply doing it via irregular payments, to prevent a non-reversible premature raise – cautious, but works.

Has nothing to do with the fact that total wages average per person is rising, as requested by Abe and performed, to the best possible extent cautious corporate management can allow themselves to do. As for the shrinking work force and the plan to counter this phenomena – already discussed to death above, no point in re-iterating.

Maybe, maybe not. Here it's coupled with the best business sentiment and increase in household spending the country's seen in close to 20 years, so I think the result will be quite different. In any case, we're both speculating here, yourself included.

We're in complete agreement there. 

I'm not talking about a positive cost benefit, I'm talking about production, business and individual sentiment, a boost to international relations and business connections, and a host of other benefits, that may be non-quantifiable directly (kinda like cancer rates 40-50 years post-nuclear spillage), but are nonetheless quite tangible and positive for the economy and the people that make it or break it.

Complete bollocks, pardon the expression. While Japan's machinery, automotive and robotics industries are indeed highly productive, it's agricultural, financial, energy, retail and electronics sectors are anything but. Do some reading, please. 

Don't need to, the market itself is doing the talking and proving him wrong, as the host of "smarter-than-thou" would be speculators that came before him and coined the "widowmaker trade" phrase have proven time and time again. These days everybody who's worth their mettle, from Soros to GS, are voting with their dollars against his half-baked gamble.

OMG, a crack in the Freckle "know it all" facade??? What's the world coming to???

No, that's not what the debate's about at all, since no one's trying to "expand debt faster than income" – what Japan's administration is doing is attempting to INVEST in its growth and kick-start an economy that's been dormant for two decades, with wiser policies than those that have been tried (and failed) here, and in many other parts of the world as well, whether you like it or not. But you're so horrified at the idea of being wrong, that you (and others like you) keep trying to dumb down the debate to "Spend, spend, spend". In spite of this, it gets alot more complex and carries alot more merit than that.

Dude, you're contradicting yourself again – First you say

, then you immediately go to

Well, here's the real picture about India – New York Times‎ – Rupee Continues Decline on New Evidence of Weakness in Indian Economy

Financial Times – India economy: gloomy forecasts

Ziv Magen, btw, said it as early as a year ago, and then a few more times – here's the last time I said it, before I grew bored (glad to know the world's caught up) – http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2012/11/23/corruption-black-money-in-india-australiaus-court-foreign-investors/ India is corrupt, unstable, and has absolutely nothing going for it aside from sheer numbers of (starving) people on the street – to compare it's economy, business environment or homeless situation (what a joke!) to Japan is utter nonsense – India's a cesspool of poverty, with unfathomable rich/poor gaps – while Japan's one of the world's most socially equalized countries, in spite of your blabber (I strongly suggest you abandon that particular line, because you're going to embarrass yourself, trust me on this one). But yes, the world's second largest country by population has, statistically, managed to finally overshoot Japan, which has 10% of its population. Ra bloody ra. Your point? Incidentally, when did you move from "Japan is doomed" to "Asia is doomed"? Or is this part of the general "the world is doomed" theme? Here's what people are saying about Japan these days (I know, I know, they're all idiots) – LA Times – Japan's Economy Bouncing Back, Offering Model for US 

Guardian – Japan's Pump-Primed Recovery Proves US Deficit Hawks Wrong 

Not sure what you mean by that, cynicism aside – this forum's all about property purchases overseas. The economies of the countries involved are a major consideration in such investments, and the number of views on this thread suggest people are finding interest in it. Personally, its also translated into some good business and connections for me, and despite our differences, I also learn alot from freckles posts, whether I find them valid or not, since he's not the only one with these opinions.

from my perspective, as someone who is offering the facilitation of property purchases in Japan, the purpose of posting this thread initially was to gain exposure and interest, and to offer what I think is an exciting and profitable alternative to those who consider investments in other countries. Freckle obviously disagrees, and I disagree with his disagreement, and so it goes…

if you don't think divulging information about overseas investment scenarios in an overseas deal forum is relevant, why are you here?

Lol Rudd please, I can imagine the audience running for the hills on that one 

Mate, this discussions got close to 5000 views, and is often first page on google for "Japan real estate property investment" – passion pays, in life and business both