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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Danchi (redirect from Public housing in Japan)
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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associations Housing estate Housing First Housing in the United Kingdom Housing in Japan Informal housing Informal sector List of housing statutes List...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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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A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex, housing development, subdivision or community) is a group of homes and other buildings built together...
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residential buildings; it is one type of housing tenure. Typically housing cooperatives are owned by shareholders but in some cases they can be owned by a non-profit...
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Dormitory (redirect from Student housing)
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...
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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...
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Yakisugi (redirect from Japanese Wood Preservation)
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...
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Housing First is a policy that offers unconditional, permanent housing as quickly as possible to homeless people, and other supportive services afterward...
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Apartment (redirect from High density housing)
authorities. See Housing in Japan. The smallest self-contained apartments are referred to as studio, efficiency or bachelor apartments in the US and Canada...
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Futon (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
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)...
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(returned to the Japanese government in September 2006) Sendai Kunimi Communication Site, Sendai, Miyagi Showa (later, Akishima) Dependent Housing Area, Akishima...
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Machiya (redirect from Traditional japanese townhouse)
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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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...
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The term housing crisis refers to acute failures in the housing market at a given place and time. Depending on the context and the speaker, the term has...
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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:...
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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...
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Education in Japan is managed by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan. Education is compulsory at the elementary...
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House (category Housing)
Visitability Types Boarding house Earth sheltering Home automation Housing estate Housing in Japan Hurricane-proof house Lodging Lustron house Mobile home Modular...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Although women in Japan were recognized as having equal legal rights to men after World War II, economic conditions for women remain unbalanced. Modern...
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Toilets in Japan are sometimes designed more elaborately than toilets commonly seen in other developed nations. European toilets occasionally have a separate...
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office, and beginning in 1984, as his home. Most of Wright's work is in the United States. In 1995 he worked on housing in Japan, and in 1993 he helped established...
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Religion in Japan is manifested primarily in Shinto and in Buddhism, the two main faiths, which Japanese people often practice simultaneously. According...
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