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

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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...

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...

Japan is an island country in East Asia. It is in the northwest Pacific Ocean and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, extending from the Sea...

Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local. Although the common...

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

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...

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

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