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By living in a small New York City apartment — a one-bedroom that I converted to two—I’ve learned to Tetris my family’s belongings into cabinets and closets just so to make things fit. Still, it’s not ...

This is a question that millions of people in the late 90s immediately knew the answer to, but decades on Hamatsu has a story ...

In Japan, the average household spent ... in a building that's built for more than just a small nuclear family. Families who simply prefer apartments — maybe because they want to live in a ...

It was another small sign of Ms. Ito’s rebellion: Other Japanese journalists had advised ... sleeping under an Ikea desk in Ms. Aqvilin’s apartment as the pair began to discuss a documentary ...

With a low fertility rate, ageing population and homes that swiftly drop in value, around nine million properties lie empty ...

The owners are picking up the pieces after their building was literally washed away. The holidays are make-or-break for their business.

Potts notes that the checkerboard pattern is a prolific design that can be spotted everywhere from an imperial villa in Japan ... from small touches like textiles to eye-catching tile ideas. Follow in ...

A woman in her 50s was stabbed to death in her apartment building in Osaka on Sunday night. Police suspect she was killed by her ex-husband who was seen on security camera footage entering and leaving ...

Three people were killed and three others wounded on Friday when a suspect opened fire in an apartment in central Pennsylvania, then led police on a 40-mile high-speed chase through two counties that ...

My American family has been living in Germany for over a decade. We have a stronger community with our neighbors because we ...