The huge government apartment complex where Ito has lived for nearly 60 years - one of the biggest in Japan, a monument to the nation's postwar baby boom and aspirations for a modern, American way ...

Manhattan apartment buildings are still piquing the interest of Japanese businesses. Taguchi & Co., a decades-old dessert maker, has acquired 43 W. 27th St., a 16-unit site in the NoMad neighborhood.