Land prices continue to drop in Japan despite having already been falling for over twenty years. During that period, house prices have risen on occasion, most recently in 2010. But in each case the rebound has soon fizzled out. Falling prices have not made housing in Japan much more affordable as earnings have also been in decline since late 1997.
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