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  2. San'ya - Wikipedia

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    San'ya (山谷, San'ya) is an area in the Taitō and Arakawa wards of Tokyo, located south of the Namidabashi intersection, around the Yoshino-dori.A neighborhood named "San'ya" existed until 1966, but the area was renamed and split between several neighborhoods.

  3. List of slums - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of slums. A slum as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat , is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between ...

  4. Housing in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Floor area ratio is the total floor area of the house (excluding the roof and basement) as compared to the area of land the house is built upon; for a maximum FAR of 150%, the greatest possible total floor area for a house built on a 100m 2 lot would be 150m 2. Both maximum values vary according to the location of the land and width of facing ...

  5. Kamagasaki - Wikipedia

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    Kamagasaki (釜ヶ崎) is an old place name for a part of Nishinari-ku in Osaka, Japan. Airin-chiku (あいりん地区) became the area's official name in May 1966.. It has the largest day laborer concentration in the country. 30,000 people are estimated to live in every 2,000 meter radius in this area, part of which has been in slum-like conditions until as recently as 2012, containing run ...

  6. Tokyo Tatemono - Wikipedia

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    Tokyo Tatemono Co., Ltd. (東京建物株式会社, Tōkyō Tatemono Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese real estate company. [1] It is listed on the Nikkei 225 . [ 2 ] Founded in 1896, Tokyo Tatemono has its headquarters in Yaesu , Chūō, Tokyo , and its current president is Hajime Sakuma.

  7. Shitamachi Museum - Wikipedia

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    Shitamachi, literally 'Low City', is the unofficial name for the Tokyo flatlands, the area of Tokyo going from Taitō to Chiyoda and Chuō. [2] It is the physically low part of the city just east of the Sumida River. [2] It was inhabited by Edo's lower classes, including craftsmen, fishermen, sailors and merchants. [2]

  8. How The World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor

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    There was often no intent on the part of the governments to comply — and there was often no intent on the part of the bank’s management to enforce,” said Navin Rai, a former World Bank official who oversaw the bank’s protections for indigenous peoples from 2000 to 2012. “That was how the game was played.”

  9. Shōtō, Shibuya - Wikipedia

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    Shoto Museum of Art. Shōtō (松濤) is an upscale residential district of Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.Located on the southwestern part of Shibuya, this district borders Kamiyamachō on the north, Udagawachō on the east, Dōgenzaka on the southeast, Shinsenchō and Maruyamachō on the south, and Komaba on the west.