Re:The Reign of Recycling
by Retric on Sunday October 04, 2015 @04:55PM
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Japan has a lot of low cost land.
According to the most recent land ministry survey conducted in 2013, there are 8.2 million vacant residences in Japan, 39 percent of which are designated as “abandoned,” meaning they are not for sale or rent. The portion of abandoned houses found in the previous survey, conducted in 2008, was 35 percent, and since 200,000 houses are demolished every year in Japan, the increase in the number is actually steeper than the percentage difference would indicate.
Re:The Reign of Recycling
by jacobr1 on Monday October 12, 2015 @10:23PM
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Japan is also weird in that they tend to tear down houses every 30 years and rebuild rather than resell them and renovate them keeping them up for hundreds of years like many other places in the world.
According to the most recent land ministry survey conducted in 2013, there are 8.2 million vacant residences in Japan, 39 percent of which are designated as “abandoned,” meaning they are not for sale or rent. The portion of abandoned houses found in the previous survey, conducted in 2008, was 35 percent, and since 200,000 houses are demolished every year in Japan, the increase in the number is actually steeper than the percentage difference would indicate.