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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 ...
On October 3, 2008, after the arson incident on the Minami adult video store in Osaka, the prefectural governor of Tokyo, Ishihara Shintaro, made the following comment concerning lodging establishments in Sanya and the people displaced from the fire, “If you go to Sanya, there are plenty of places you can stay for 200 or 300 yen, but in ...
[2] [3] [4] Most of these structures are buildings; however, there are other types of structures among the tallest in the prefecture, such as freestanding towers and incineration smokestacks. The tallest structure in the prefecture is Tokyo Skytree , a megatall lattice tower that rises 634 metres (2,080 feet), which was completed in 2012.
This varies wildly between major urban areas (Tokyo: 91.0 m 2 or 27.5 tsubo or 980 sq ft) and rural areas (Toyama Prefecture: 178.4 m 2 or 54.0 tsubo or 1,920 sq ft). The area of homes that are advertised for sale or rental is commonly listed in the Japanese unit tsubo (坪), which is approximately the area of two tatami mats (3.3 m 2 or 36 sq ft).
Tokyo skyline, Nishi-Shinjuku district Osaka skyline, Umeda district Nagoya skyline, Meieki district. Japan has more than 300 high-rise buildings above 150 m (490 ft). [1] Unlike China, South Korea, Taiwan and Malaysia with skyscrapers exceeding 400 m (1,300 ft) in height, Japan's skyscrapers are relatively shorter. All buildings above 50 m ...
Billiards house. Western-style residence is a two-story building constructed of wood that also has a cellar. The design is based on the Jacobean style of England in the 17th century, which incorporates Islamic motifs of the Renaissance. On the south side of the building, there is a veranda with a colonnade.
Crossroads (十字路, Jūjiro), also known as Crossways, Shadows of the Yoshiwara or Slums of Tokyo, is a 1928 silent Japanese drama film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. [1] [2] [3] It is believed to be the first [4] or one of the first [5] [6] Japanese films to be screened in Europe, and often mentioned in conjunction with Kinugasa's other avant-garde film, the two years earlier A Page of ...
The Rokumeikan (鹿鳴館, "Banqueting House") was a large two-story building in Tokyo, completed in 1883, which became a controversial symbol of Westernisation in the Meiji period. Commissioned for the housing of foreign guests by the Foreign Minister Inoue Kaoru , it was designed by British architect Josiah Conder , a prominent Western ...