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Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by kelp on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @07:25PM (#27454713)
In the US, we invented zoning, mostly to exclude black people from white neighborhoods. And now we use it to prop up property values and continue to keep poor people out of wealthy neighborhoods.

Now I'm speculating, but I wonder if Japan, being mostly Japanese people, didn't have such a large group to exclude from certain neighborhoods? So they didn't entrench the institution of local control and exclusionary zoning?

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Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by lmm on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @08:36PM (#27455326)
Japan traditionally had a caste system where certain people were restricted to certain neighbourhoods. There was a lot of official effort to break that up after the war, but you can still tell which neighbourhoods are which.
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Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by adler0901 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @08:07PM (#27455085)
google burakumin

The public schools I taught at in Japan kept (private) lists of which kids came from burakumin families.

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Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by Sophistifunk on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @11:45PM (#27456441)
It's my understanding that Japan's housing regulations are mostly driven by a long history of all their buildings falling over in an earthquake every couple of decades.
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