Japanology Plus explores Japanese life and culture. In this five-minute digest, we look at tiny houses: homes occupying around 50 square meters of land. They're appearing more and more in recent ...

A former guesthouse standing on a university campus in the capital's Setagaya Ward blends the traditional architecture of a tea ceremony house with modernist features, adopting a predominantly silver ...

Today were taking a peek at a FREE Tiny House. Japan is filled with abandoned properties and many of them are Free (Yes we will cover how you can get an abandoned home in Japan!) With millions of ...

These abandoned houses have created "ghost villages" in Japan's rural prefectures where ... the bureaucratic difficulties that moving to a small town create. While COVID-19 gave many workers ...

Hannah Kirshner owns Japanese Kominka houses in Yamanaka, Ishikawa Prefecture. While she lived in a rented apartment for the first few years, an empty old house nearby caught her eye. It took ...