Japan Real Estate Giant GATES Launches $75M Tokenization Pilot in Tokyo

GATES Inc., a prominent Japanese real estate investment firm, is pioneering a $75 million tokenization initiative targeting income-generating properties in central Tokyo. The project leverages the Oasys blockchain to facilitate foreign investor participation in Japan's $20.5 trillion real estate market.

The company plans to scale rapidly, with ambitions to tokenize over $200 billion worth of assets—equivalent to 1% of the national market. This marks one of Japan's largest property tokenization efforts to date, reflecting growing institutional adoption of blockchain for asset fractionalization.

Tokenization of real-world assets continues gaining global momentum. Dubai projects its tokenized real estate market will hit $16 billion by 2033, while BCG and Ripple estimate the total tokenized asset market could reach $18 trillion within the same timeframe.