Ikea Japan is leasing a tiny home in Shinjuku, Tokyo, for 99 Japanese yen (about $0.86) a month. The compact apartment is just 107 square feet, but it comes fully kitted with Ikea furniture. There's ...

In Japan, spring isn’t just cherry blossom season and hay fever season, it’s also moving season. The vast majority of Japanese colleges start their academic year in April, and mid-year transfer ...

Originally an outdated apartment with an impractical layout, Kumiko Ouchi of Small Design Studio completely redesigned the aptly named The House for Two, significantly changing the layout so that ...

Japanese apartments are generally not known for their size or for their ornate design features. Yet, I think this is all the more reason to bring some greenery into your space! Although taking care of ...

We in the West typically see only the top slices of Japanese aesthetics: the high-concept, glass-and-aluminum Modernism of no-expense- spared commercial projects or the steep-pitched roofs and ...