The one investment I'll regret not making to the day I die was in a Hong Kong company. Let's not mention the name and squander months of therapy..
The shares were at 0.25 HKD in 2003. Today, they are 2.00 with another 1.00 in dividends in between. The gain would have been 2,000%-plus with dividend reinvestment.
Of course, there's no guarantee I would have held the entire way up and chances are that I would have sold.
Roberto, it's difficult investing in Japanese real estate directly. By that I mean, it's not always so easy for an outsider or gai-jin to step in and start buying commercial property in the heart of Tokyo. However, you could do very well buying shares in property companies. I once owned a few shares in a property company in Japan named Daikyo. It trades on the Tokyo Exchange, stock listing number is 8840. I don't own it now. Some of the Japanese banks are finally looking healthy, but their shares are relatively expensive.
Artist, do you know any non-oil companies in Russia? I think oil will stay in the low $60s and if I wanted to buy an oil company stock, there are many in Canada at good prices. By the way, I forgot to mention my favourite investment... Oops, it's uranium companies, generally smaller ones. The world is going nuclear (power) again.