Greetings. This blog is about Japanese housing. It is not an advisory guide, nor is it a professional survey of markets and trends, though over time such matters will certainly be addressed. Mainly, it is a means of coming to grips with the peculiarities of Japanese housing in all its iterations–economic, stylistic, cultural–from the standpoint of people who actually live in Japan, namely the authors, one of whom is a resident alien, the other a Japanese national.