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In the 1980s, a new home in Japan cost 5-8 times the annual income of the average Japanese, and 2-3 times that of an average American. [9] The typical loan term for Japanese homes was 20 years, with a 35% down payment, while in the United States it was 30 years and 25%, due to differing practices in their financial markets.
Voiced by: Yusaku Yara (Japanese); Doug Stone [2] (English) An elderly inhabitant of the complex and a friend of Takashi. He is a handyman by trade. Kentaro Yoshii Voiced by: Nobuo Tobita (Japanese); Michael Sorich [2] (English) An elderly inhabitant of the complex. He is a retired security guard and military soldier who is a friend of Takashi ...
The Yodokō Guest House was built as the summer villa for the well-to-do brewer of Sakura-Masamune sake, Tazaemon Yamamura, and is the only surviving Frank Lloyd Wright residence in Japan. [1] The guest house was designed in 1918, and construction was completed in 1924.
Atago Green Hills is a large-scale redevelopment project built on a 3.8-acre (15,000 m 2) site.It was planned with the development philosophy of preserving the culture, topography and greenery of the Mt Atago area while making use of this important inner city landscape resource.
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The Japanese kitchen (Japanese: 台所, romanized: Daidokoro, lit. 'kitchen') is the place where food is prepared in a Japanese house. Until the Meiji era, a kitchen was also called kamado (かまど; lit. stove) [1] and there are many sayings in the Japanese language that involve kamado as it was considered the symbol of a house. The term ...
The Jutaku phenomenon rose in the 1990s as Japan's real estate sites grew increasingly smaller, both from the Japanese inheritance system and the island's growing population. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] According to the architect Kengo Kuma , the first traces of Jutaku appear in the writings of the poet Kamo no Chōmei and the description of his own small house.
A coin locker in Japan, costing 100 yen per day. According to the Japanese government survey, the homeless staying have little interest in manga or the Internet, and are instead using the place because of the low price relative to any of the competition for temporary housing, business hotels, capsule hotels, hostels, or any other option besides sleeping on the street.