Abenomics benefits less extensive outside Tokyo
Rents in November for prime office space continue to rise in Tokyo, remain flat in Osaka, and drop in all other major cities
Osaka
AN economic rebound and loose money policy under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has briefly halted a long slide in Japan's commercial property market, but the benefits of "Abenomics" appear increasingly limited to Tokyo, leaving a moribund hinterland.
For a while, as the Bank of Japan printed money and Mr Abe spent it, commercial property investment, a barometre of economic activity, spilled beyond the capital into the country's larger regional cities.
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