The windows were covered with a variant of the rice paper you see in traditional Japanese homes.

The original Japanese home computer games had no real storyline.

A miniature shrine placed or hung high on a wall in some Japanese homes.

After a minute, I came to one which was like the inside of a Japanese home.

Four years later, rice cookers could be found in half of Japanese homes.

"Because Japanese homes are smaller, their cars become private havens for them."

This economical use of space is a big selling point in tiny Japanese homes.

In 1990, the latest year for which data was available, fewer than 8 percent of Japanese homes had earthquake insurance.

In Japanese homes, the kitchen started to become a separate room within the main building at that time.

Traditional Japanese homes were built within a rigid structural system.