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  2. Housing in Japan - Wikipedia

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    In terms of tenure, 62.4% of housing in Japan consisted of owner-occupied dwellings, 24.3% of units leased by the private sector, 7.6% of units leased by the public sector, and 5.2% of housing for government workers and company employees. [11] Balconies of a typical apartment building in Sapporo. According to a housing survey carried out in ...

  3. Minka - Wikipedia

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    Minka. Coordinates: 36°24′N 136°53′E. A gasshō-zukuri -styled minka home in Shirakawa village, Gifu Prefecture. Minka ( Japanese: 民家, lit. "house of the people") are vernacular houses constructed in any one of several traditional Japanese building styles . In the context of the four divisions of society, Minka were the dwellings of ...

  4. Genshiro Kawamoto - Wikipedia

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    Genshiro Kawamoto. Genshiro Kawamoto (川本 源司郎, Kawamoto Genshiro, born 1932) is a Japanese businessman known for his real estate investments in Japan, California and Hawaii. [1] He is also notable for controversial real estate investments in the late 1980s, when he bought more than 170 properties, including many Oʻahu homes. [2]

  5. Japanese castle - Wikipedia

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    Japanese castle. Himeji Castle, a World Heritage Site in Hyōgo Prefecture, is the most visited castle in Japan. Japanese castles (城, shiro or jō) are fortresses constructed primarily of wood and stone. They evolved from the wooden stockades of earlier centuries and came into their best-known form in the 16th century.

  6. Super-aged Japan now has 9 million vacant homes. And ... - AOL

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    Overgrown vegetation surrounds a vacant house in the Yato area of Yokosuka City, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan, on August 21, 2013. - Akio Kon/Bloomberg/Getty Images/File

  7. Tokonoma - Wikipedia

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    Tokonoma at Tenryū-ji. A tokonoma (床の間), [1] or simply toko (床), [2] [3] is a recessed space in a Japanese-style reception room, in which items for artistic appreciation are displayed. In English, a tokonoma could be called an alcove .

  8. Toshio Motoya - Wikipedia

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    Toshio Motoya. Toshio Motoya (元谷 外志雄, Motoya Toshio, born 3 June 1943) is a Japanese essayist, publisher and real estate entrepreneur who is the president of APA Group, [1] which includes APA Hotels & Resorts, one of Japan's largest hotel chains.

  9. Chashitsu - Wikipedia

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    Chashitsu. Jo-an is a chashitsu (tea house) and inscribed as a National Treasure. Chashitsu in its garden setting, Itsuku-shima, c. 1900. Chashitsu ( 茶室, "tea room") in Japanese tradition is an architectural space designed to be used for tea ceremony ( chanoyu) gatherings. [1]

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