地上げ

Japanese

Kanji in this term
地	上
じ Grade: 2	あ Grade: 1
jūbakoyomi

Noun

地(じ)上(あ)げ • (jiage) 

1. the practice of filling low-lying land, building embankments
2. the practice of buying small parcels of land to consolidate and resell
   • 2007, Takashi Kadokura, Bakuhatsu suru chika bijinesu [Explosion of underground business], page 57:

     その際(さい)、金(きん)融(ゆう)機(き)関(かん)や企(き)業(ぎょう)が頼(たよ)りにしたのがいわゆる「地(じ)上(あ)げ屋(や)」である。「地(じ)上(あ)げ」とは一(いっ)般(ぱん)に不(ふ)動(どう)産(さん)業(ぎょう)者(しゃ)が土(と)地(ち)等(など)を購(こう)入(にゅう)することを指(さ)すが、バブル期(き)には、正(せい)当(とう)な権(けん)利(り)に基(もと)づいて建(たて)物(もの)や敷(しき)地(ち)を使(し)用(よう)している者(もの)に対(たい)して、その意(い)思(し)に反(はん)してこれらの明(あ)け渡(わた)しを要(よう)求(きゅう)する不(ふ)当(とう)な「地(じ)上(あ)げ」が横(おう)行(こう)した。

     Sono sai, kin'yū kikan ya kigyō ga tayori ni shita no ga iwayuru “jiageya” de aru.“Jiage” to wa ippan ni fudōsan gyōsha ga tochi nado o kōnyū suru koto o sasu ga, baburu-ki ni wa, seitō na kenri ni motozuite tatemono ya shikichi o shiyō shite iru mono ni tai shite, sono ishi ni han shite korera no akewatashi o yōkyū suru futō na “jiage” ga ōkō shita.

     When doing so, financial institutions and companies relied on so-called jiageya. Jiage generally refers to the practice of real estate agents purchasing land and so on, but during the economic bubble, there was a proliferation of unscrupulous jiage in which agents demanded that people who were rightfully using buildings and land surrender such properties against their will.

3. rigging the price of land for sale

Derived terms

• 地(じ)上(あ)げ屋(や) (jiageya, “landshark, unscrupulous real estate dealer”)

Verb

地(じ)上(あ)げする • (jiage suru) suru (stem 地(じ)上(あ)げし (jiage shi), past 地(じ)上(あ)げした (jiage shita))

1. to raise the ground level, to fill low areas of land

See also

• 地(ち)上(じょう) (chijō, “above ground”)

References

• 地上げ, Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary 5th edition (2004), Tokyo: Kenkyūsha.