Photos: San Jose Japantown’s Buddhist Church embarks on expansion

The San Jose Buddhist Church in the city’s Japantown broke ground Thursday on a massive project to replace its 70-year-old education building with a $15 million Dharma Center. A pamphlet shows a ...

How Forza Horizon 6’s Japan shapes to be bigger and better than anything that has come before it.

We’ve known for some time that Forza Horizon 6’s Japan is Playground Games’ largest and densest map to date. We’ve known, too, that Playground Games’ version of Tokyo City is set to be the biggest ...

Inside Akasaki & Vanhuyse’s ‘Home–Home’ Exhibition in Japan

Akasaki & Vanhuyse’s Home–Home exhibition in Chiba gathered 16 international designers, staged in a 1974 modernist house and an Edo‑period residence; Works spanned ...

A Centuries-Old Tradition Making Wooden Dolls

According to the Tohoku region’s Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, kokeshi (koh-keh-shee) originated in the late Edo ...
Manila Standard

Japanese design meets Filipino living in Hana Garden Villas

Chan Toei Properties is bringing Japanese-inspired homebuilding to the local housing market with the unveiling of showcase homes at Hana Garden Villas, ...
Dezeen

Denizen Works designs Japanese house with "enigmatic quality"

UK studio Denizen Works has exclusively revealed its first house in Japan, which features an almost entirely blank street-facing facade. Named House in Onomichi, the charred-timber-clad house was ...
The Hindu

Japanese PM Takaichi’s party secures supermajority in lower house in landslide victory

The governing party of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi secured a two-thirds supermajority in a key parliamentary election on Sunday (February 8, 2026), Japanese media reported, citing preliminary ...
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The Japanese house offers lessons in living for everyone

Japanese house design has been a fixation of the West since the early 20th century. From Charles Rennie Mackintosh to Frank Lloyd Wright and the Bauhaus and beyond, the country’s housing stock showed ...
New Atlas

Single-floor tiny house fits working and living spaces into 21 ft

The model shown appears to be permanently installed and includes a deck that helps expand the living space, though the tiny house can also be mounted on wheels for regular towing, if preferred. The ...
Mansion Global

This Japanese-Inspired Timber and Glass House Stands Somewhat Secluded in the Portland, Oregon, Suburbs

This timber and glass house in the Portland suburb of Happy Valley was built to Japanese- and American-design principles. Designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma in collaboration with American ...
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This Fukasawa house is a contemporary take on the traditional wooden architecture of Japan

Fukasawa, a residential area in south-west Tokyo, is quietly known for its architectural charm, with typically small buildings lining narrow-fronted deep plots.. The atmosphere is quaint, considering ...