When ORIX and French infrastructure giant VINCI launched a 44-year concession to operate three airports in Japan's Kansai region in April 2016, no real precedents in Japan existed to guide them.

When Lions Mansion Akasaka opened its doors in 1968, it announced an ambition: to bring quality urban housing to Japan's working families. What followed was one of the most sustained records of market leadership in Japanese real estate. By…

Airports are often described as small cities: they operate around the clock, house diverse infrastructure, and serve as hubs for thousands of people daily. This complexity makes them ideal showcases for ambitious decarbonization efforts.

Beppu City, on the eastern coast of Kyushu Island, is famous as the site of Japan’s most abundant collection of hot springs, or onsen – it boasts more than 2,000 of them. But its popularity as a destination for domestic tour group’s peaked…

“In Japan, people from the Kansai region around Osaka are seen as friendly, progressive…and very commercial”, says Toyonori Takahashi. And as the Group Kansai Representative for ORIX Group and an Osaka native himself, he should know.

The Kansai region of Western Japan is known for its entrepreneurial spirit and commercial culture. It is, then, apt that Osaka, Kansai’s biggest city, will be the home of the country’s first integrated resort (IR), which is a group of faci…

Osaka’s city center is going big and going green. This September marked the opening of the first phase of GRAND GREEN OSAKA, a massive urban redevelopment project centered on the Umekita district just north of Japan Railway’s ‘Osaka Statio…

Operating an aquarium in a building complex under Tokyo’s highest tower miles from the sea sounds like a real challenge. But this is exactly what ORIX Group has been doing for more than a decade, without a hitch and to considerable public …

Most people coming through an airport these days are likely to be thinking, at least in passing, about the planet-warming carbon dioxide that their travel will generate.

The tourists are back! Overseas visitors are flocking to Japan once more, with their pursuit of a unique cultural experience made more affordable than ever by a weak yen. This is providing a welcome tailwind to Kansai Airports, the joint v…

Successful partnerships between the worlds of fashion and finance are rare. But when ORIX and TOPTEN joined forces in South Korea, they created an innovative collaboration that has revitalized the shopping scene in Busan, the country’s sec…

Less than two hours by train or car from metropolitan Tokyo, nestled in the Hakone mountains, sits Hakone Gora KARAKU (KARAKU). This is an onsen resort, a classic Japanese inn, with all that this implies in terms of privacy, a traditional …