Tag: lumber prices Japan

  • Japan Housing Starts: July 2016

    Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport disclosed Japan housing total starts at 85,208 units, and 8.9 per cent increase over one year ago and a 0.1 per cent drop from June, said the Japan Lumber Reports Friday. Japan Housing Starts: July 2016 Japan’s housing starts have been above 85,000 units for two months in…

  • Japan Housing Starts: June 2016

    Japan’s housing starts in June were 85,953 units (down – 2.5 per cent from the same month in the previous year), according to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, said the Japan Lumber Journal Friday. Although figure was below previous year’s for the first time in six months, when compared to the previous…

  • Japan Wood Products Demand: July 2016

    Data for Japan’s North America timber, as well as dimension lumber, imports for the rst six months of 2016 have been released this week. North American Timber and Log Market in Japan Export prices of Douglas fir logs in Japan for August shipment settled at the same level as in July, said the Japan Lumber…

  • Japan Housing Starts: May 2016

    Japan’s housing starts in May were 78,728 units (up 9.8 per cent from the same month in the previous year), surpassing the previous year’s results for five consecutive months, according to Japan Lumber Journal Thursday. Housing Starts, Japan Compared with the previous month, Japan housing starts decreased by 4.5 per cent due to Golden Week…

  • Japan Wood Self-Sufficiency Plan

    Total new housing starts in Japan for April were 82,389 units, a 9 per cent increase over April 2015, and an 8.9 per cent improvement over March this year, according to the Japan Lumber Reports Friday. As well, the 2015 Forestry White Paper has been submitted to the Diet, disclos- ing Japan’s current degree of…