This is our Tokyo house tour. I love giving house tours because it gives insight into different ways of living. I belive this ...

Inheritance taxes may be controversial in the U.S. but they are especially steep in Japan. So steep, in fact, that residents who inherit land (and can not afford to pay the exorbitant fees) are ...

Tomoya and Naomi Sato, looking to buy a home in one of the world’s most expensive cities, bought a tiny plot of land in a crowded residential neighborhood in central Tokyo. The land was steps from a ...

Some newer houses around the country are barely wider than a common family car. From left, Takina Shimura and his parents, Tomoko Shimura and Yoshiki Shimura, in their compact house in Zushi, Japan, a ...