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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 ...
Today, fewer and fewer Japanese live in the rapidly aging danchi, preferring detached houses or condominiums, known as mansion (マンション, manshon). Due to the mass influx of young families into danchi in a short period of time from the 1950s through 1970s, age groups of danchi neighbourhoods are much more uniform compared to other ...
Glengrove Apartments(232 units) near Valley Station. Laurel at the Woodlands(312 units) near St. Denis. Livano Springdale (302 units) in northeast Jefferson County. The Prestonian (343 units) in ...
A village (村, mura) [a] is a local administrative unit in Japan. [1] It is a local public body along with prefecture (県, ken, or other equivalents), city (市, shi), and town (町, chō, sometimes machi). Geographically, a village's extent is contained within a prefecture.
The formal effort to build Ping Yuen started in 1939 after Chinatown was called "the worst [slum] in the world"; it was the first public housing project completed in the neighborhood, and unlike the typical single room occupancy housing of Chinatown, featured private bathrooms and kitchens for each apartment when the first building opened in ...
The Tōmatsu house from Funairi-chō, Nagoya, is an example of a large machiya. Machiya façade in Kyoto Old fabric shop in Nara. Machiya (町屋/町家) are traditional wooden townhouses found throughout Japan and typified in the historical capital of Kyoto.
This list is of Japanese structures dating from the Taishō period (1912–1926) that have been designated Important Cultural Properties. [1] As of October 2016, ninety-six properties with two hundred and twenty-seven component structures have been so designated .
A "Fengshui woodland," "Fungshui woodland," or "Fengshui Forest," known in Chinese as 風水林 (fēngshuǐlín - "Wind-water Forest") is a grove, forest, or woodland protected by the residents of villages, towns, or, in some cases, religious communities associated with Daoist or Buddhist monasteries or temples. [1]