SENDAI/MORIOKA, IWATE PREF. – The door to the woman’s room was slightly ajar despite the biting cold outside.
“It’s stifling, so I always leave it that way,” an 82-year-old resident of a tiny apartment in Kobe said in February.
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Face to face: Shuichi Maki (left), director of the nonprofit organization Yorozu Sodankai, speaks with a resident of a replacement housing complex in Kobe on Feb. 5. | KYODO
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