Housing in Japan includes modern and traditional styles. Two patterns of residences are predominant in contemporary Japan: the single-family detached...

from the same period. The Japan Housing Corporation (JHC), now known as the Urban Renaissance Agency (UR), was founded in 1955. During the 1950s, 1960s...

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Japan is an island country in East Asia. It is located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, and is bordered on the west...

Homelessness in Japan (ホームレス, 浮浪者) is a social issue overwhelmingly affecting middle-aged and elderly males. Homelessness is thought to have peaked in the 1990s...

Public housing, also known as social housing, refers to affordable housing provided in buildings that are usually owned and managed by local government...

Housing First is a policy that offers unconditional, permanent housing as quickly as possible to homeless people, and other supportive services afterward...

A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex, housing development, subdivision or community) is a group of homes and other buildings built together...

Yakisugi (Japanese: 焼杉, lit. 'burnt cedar ') is a traditional, very old Japanese method of wood preservation. It is referred to in the West as burnt timber...

impact on later Japanese housing and is the basis of modern Japanese housing. In the old architectural style, tatami mats were laid only in a part of the...

corporation and constitutes a form of housing tenure. Typically housing cooperatives are owned by shareholders but in some cases they can be owned by a non-profit...

for new housing. In Japan, many of the larger companies as well as some of the ministries still offer to their newly graduated freshmen a room in a dormitory...

at Fuchū Air Station in Tokyo, Japan, on 1 July 1957 to replace the Far East Command. USFJ is headquartered at Yokota Air Base in Tokyo and is commanded...

Among developed countries, for example, cities in Japan have relatively abundant and affordable housing for their size, which some have attributed to nationalized...

Futon dryer, for airing futons when they can not be placed outside Housing in Japan, for cultural context Ken (unit on which houses are traditionally built)...

authorities. See Housing in Japan. The smallest self-contained apartments are referred to as studio, efficiency or bachelor apartments in the US and Canada...

Japan and typified in the historical capital of Kyoto. Machiya ('townhouses') and nōka ('farm dwellings') constitute the two categories of Japanese vernacular...

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Affordable housing in Canada refers to living spaces that are deemed financially accessible to households with a median household income. Housing affordability...

Population and housing censuses have been carried out in Algeria in 1967, 1977, 1987, 1998, 2008. and 2018. General censuses of population and housing (Portuguese:...

are just two reasons why Japan has one of the highest life expectancies in the world. The life expectancy from birth in Japan improved significantly after...

Education in Japan is managed by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan. Education is compulsory at the elementary...

Housing Complex C (Japanese: C団地, Hepburn: C Danchi) is an anime television miniseries that aired in October 2022 in the United States on Adult Swim's...

Toilets in Japan are sometimes designed more elaborately than toilets commonly seen in other developed nations. European toilets occasionally have a separate...

topical guide to Japan: Japan – an island nation in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean. It lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea...

Although women in Japan were recognized as having equal legal rights to men after World War II, economic conditions for women remain unbalanced. Modern...

The Negishi Housing Complex (Japanese: 根岸住宅地区 Negishi Juutaku Chiku) was an enclave of United States Forces Japan operated by United States Fleet Activities...

(either from new construction in a growing area, or depopulation — see Housing in Japan). In markets with insufficient housing supply, reverse or upward filtering...

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people in Japan have fewer legal protections than in most other developed countries, although some developments towards stronger rights have been made in the...