Barings, PAG, Mitsui Fudosan Advisors to Speak at Mingtiandi Tokyo Forum on Japanese Capital Strategies
The Mingtiandi Tokyo Forum on 10 Nov 2026 will feature panels on Japanese capital flows into overseas real estate and domestic yield strategies. Speakers include Barings Real Estate Australia's James King, PAG's Masami Takizawa, and Mitsui Fudosan Investment Advisors' Takayuki Fukui.
The Mingtiandi Tokyo Forum, now in its third edition, takes place at the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo on Tuesday 10 Nov 2026, with more than 200 executives registered. Japanese companies and investors held an estimated JPY 26.7 trillion (S$169.8 billion) of real estate overseas in 2025, up 19 per cent from a year earlier, according to Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Research Institute.
A panel on global opportunities for Japanese capital will feature James King, head of investment management at Barings Real Estate Australia, and Masami Takizawa, a PAG managing director. The session, moderated by Citco Fund Services executive vice president Xander Huang, will explore how Japanese capital is working with fund managers and developers abroad.
King oversees investment management, strategy, product development and capital raising across Barings’ equity and debt business in Australia. A subsidiary of US insurer MassMutual, Barings agreed in late July to pay Dexus A$700 million (S$491 million) for 480 Queen Street, a Brisbane office tower, and led a consortium that bought Melbourne’s Moorabbin Airport from Goodman Group for A$1.5 billion in June. Japanese investors put more than S$3 billion into Australian real estate in 2025 and more than S$7 billion over the past three years, according to Cushman & Wakefield.
Takizawa joined PAG in October after almost six years at Patrizia, where she headed capital markets for Japan. PAG, founded as Secured Capital Japan in 1997, has more than S$55 billion in assets under management. The company closed Secured Capital Real Estate Partners VIII at S$4 billion in February 2025 and is now raising a core-plus and value-add real estate fund with a target of about S$2.5 billion.
A separate panel on strategies for fund investors will focus on Japan’s domestic market, moderated by Shai Greenberg, head of international capital at JLL Japan. Speakers include Takayuki Fukui of Mitsui Fudosan Investment Advisors and Tomohiro Sumiya of Integral Real Estate. Japan has led all Asia Pacific markets with S$42.5 billion in trades of income-earning property in 2026, according to MSCI.
Fukui oversees all Japan real estate investments and investor relations at Mitsui Fudosan Investment Advisors, which manages about JPY 1.7 trillion across private funds and private REITs. Sumiya, a founding partner of Integral Real Estate, spent nearly a decade at Blackstone, where he led Japanese real estate investment from 2015 and executed about S$9 billion of acquisitions. Integral Real Estate Fund I reached a final close of JPY 23.5 billion in May, against a target of at least JPY 10 billion.
