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		<title>Building your home can come at quite a cost</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masako Tsubuku</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People in the market for new single-family houses usually don&#8217;t worry as much about the land those houses occupy because they tend to work with developers, who purchase huge tracts and then subdivide them. The customer buys the land and the house as a package, though the authorities see it as two purchases and assess [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Checking out the real estate agents</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masako Tsubuku</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago we looked at a house that had been bought at auction by a housing company, fixed up and then put on the market. We found it among the listings on the home page of a realtor we&#8217;ve dealt with in the past, and he agreed to show it to us. It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s part-time landlords are overestimating single-tenant needs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masako Tsubuku</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to cut costs, electronics maker Sharp has announced that it is transferring its struggling liquid crystal display business from factories in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture, to factories in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. In 2004, the Kameyama facility started making large LCD screens for TVs and more workers were hired. Sales of TVs have since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s part-time landowners are overestimating single-tenant needs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masako Tsubuku</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Danchi housing lets you think outside the usual box</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masako Tsubuku</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese housing experts have a list of casual terms to describe the layouts of apartments and condominiums: kamaboko (fish paste), yokan-giri (sliced bean jelly), ta no ji (rice paddy ideograph) and chocolate bars. What these terms have in common is geometrical utility. All are rectangles that can be easily divided into smaller rectangles, thus conveying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second homes may be cheap, but they are often in disrepair</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masako Tsubuku</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Atami The ad said the property was 2 km from Ajiro Station on the Ito Line, but it was difficult to tell how far we were traveling in the agent&#8217;s car. Most of the trip was up a steep, winding road into the hills above Atami on the Izu Peninsula, an area developed in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The size of your dog could depend on your landlord</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masako Tsubuku</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A 53-year-old woman was recently arrested after she moved out of a 50-sq.-meter rental apartment in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, leaving behind 26 dogs. She hadn&#8217;t paid her rent for some time and went missing in early June. By the time someone entered her apartment on July 3, one of the dogs was already dead. She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dip into the history of the Japanese &#8216;system bath&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masako Tsubuku</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese people love their evening bath, but tubs in private residences are a relatively recent development. By 1963, only 60 percent of Japanese homes had them. The small amount of living space necessitated by economic reality, not to mention the paucity of indoor plumbing, couldn&#8217;t accommodate bathrooms, and the sent&#333;, or public bath, provided enough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At times, there&#8217;s no getting away from the neighbors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The house we were inspecting in Shiroi, Chiba Prefecture, looked better and larger in the photos that the realtor had posted on its website. Those pictures had been taken with a wide angle lens at the eastern side of the house, which bordered a leafy promenade. To the north and south of the house, however, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who you buy a home from can make a big difference in price</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We met the real estate agent at Honda Station on the Sotobo Line in Chiba Prefecture. As we drove to the property we talked about the area. Though a typically cramped Japanese bedroom community, it&#8217;s a bit older than most, so the houses were more varied in shape and size, with wider spaces between them, [...]]]></description>
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