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One of the reasons why it's harder to buy some used homes in Japan is because it's harder government backed housing loans for housing that do not meet earthquake standards. For old…

Building standards were first implemented in Japan in 1952 and were revised in 1981 and 2000. Apologies for not having an English source, but of the people who were killed because …

Is it important to learn the kana and kanji at the same time as learning how to converse in Japanese? I'm a native speaker, but it was a lot easier to learn kana and kanji because …

`'One-punch'' assaults have cost 90 Australian lives since 2000, most in booze-fuelled bashings, a study has found.` ... `NSW had the highest number of king-hits (28), followed by …

Putting aside the content of the article, the photo of the "Cherry tree with temple in background. Chubu Region, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. " is actually a photo of Matsumoto Castle…

One underlying reason for the split between the Imperial Japanese Army, and Navy was that the Army was generally made up of members of the Choshu clan who were rivals of the Satsum…

Google does not have majority share in Yahoo! JAPAN. There reason Yahoo! JAPAN uses Google instead of Bing (unlike the rest of Yahoo!) is because Yahoo! JAPAN felt that Google offe…

The 50k JPY figure comes from the budget for social welfare in Japan. Here is an article where it is broken down for 2009: http://diamond.jp/articles/-/16672 But, let me try it wit…

Zhou Enlai said,“two thousand years of friendship and five decades of misfortune,” about the relationship between China and Japan.

I certainly would vote for politicians that would support universal basic income in Japan. A calculation done in the past few years found that ¥50,000 a month (about $500 US) could…

Question: If this were to actually pass in the State of California, would the only thing necessary after that be for the US Congress to accept six new states into the Union? https:…

That's a great point, the Tokaido Shinkansen (the first bullet train line in Japan) was created in the 60's but the Tokaido Main line is still going strong. The Tokaido Shinkansen …

> This is an absolutely amazing 1st world country with 3rd world construction practices. The earthquake in 2011 probably showed that Japanese houses are built quite sturdily. Older…

Yahoo! JAPAN uses Google for search instead of Bing, as a result Google has the largest slice of the search market in Japan.

SBBM is Softbank as well, so Softbank actually owns over 42% of Yahoo! Japan. In practice it's really Softbank's internet content and portal service in Japan that also leverages Ya…