Talk:Housing in Japan: Difference between revisions

Thoughts on additions:

1. Photos! E.g. exterior and interior views of single-family and multiple-unit housing, modern and traditional. Photo of house under construction.
2. Building materials: frame, foundation, roof (including tiles), siding
3. Patterns of occupancy: who lives where?
4. Trends, e.g. barrier-free
5. Regional variation
6. Funding, loans, bad loans
7. Mixed-use buildings: shops on first floor etc.
8. Housing ownership and transactions
9. Public housing; government programs related to housing

Edward S. Morse died in 1925, so for this page and others it will be possible to scan in many of his illustrations from the book mentioned in the references. I'll start scanning in some pictures. --DannyWilde 06:15, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone know the original source of the description of Japanese people as "living in rabbit hutches"? It might have been from a U.N. report in the 1960s or 1970s. The term has had a lasting effect on Western perception of Japanese housing and reference to it would be a helpful addition to the article. The Japanese census collects information on floor space, and one wonders whether it's in response to this description. If anyone knows the results of the census question on housing, it to would be a valuable statistic to cite. Fg2 08:25, 11 November 2005 (UTC) I looked at lots of sites that I found using Google, but could not find anything resembling the original. Fg2 10:12, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I posted these on the WP:JTNB back when the article was first proposed, but they've been archive on the talk page by now.

• Finding a place to live and work in Japan
• Guide to Official Statistics in Japan: Construction, Real Estate, and Housing
• Japan See the Settlements subtitle
• A book review on Housing in Postwar Japan: A Social History
• Traditional Japanese housing - minka
• Why Are Prices in Japan So Damn High?
• "The recent controversial rough sleepers provisions in Japan" - Homelessness (pdf)

Re: the home ownership section, see also: parasite singles

Genkans are not in and of themselves all that visually interesting, usually, but I'll see if I can't find a good one for a photo, either for use in that article or this one. — MC MasterChef :: Leave a tip — 10:36, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I added some data from the 1998 survey on housing — for some reason the 2003 data doesn't seem to have been added yet, at least on the internet site there. This link has a bunch of data on house construction numbers, if there are any people who enjoy poring over Excel tables. For the moment, I've just dropped it in the external links. — MC MasterChef :: Leave a tip — 05:35, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Puzzled by the statement "Basements are not allowed and are never found." A google search for 地下室 (restricted to pages in Japanese and top-level domain .jp) returned "about 490,000" pages. I only looked at a couple, but they definitely seemed to be talking about basements in Japan. For example, 1, 2, 3. I wonder if they're permitted in some communities or prefectures, not in others? Fg2 11:34, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]