Museums contain artifacts of the past that are both interesting and informative; a great chance to learn. But for a chance to see, and perhaps even experience, Japan’s folk life of the pre-modern ...

A new housing development set to open in Folsom in March is being built with a unique framing technology and design by ...

It’s hard to say what’s cooler about the Japanese shōya house at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens — the centuries-old wood structure that was once the center of a small ...

The assumption that wood houses are not made to last is simply that: an assumption—and an incorrect one at that. The oldest wood building in the world is Japan’s Hōryū-ji pagoda, which has a cypress ...

A Japanese couple spent over two years building a cluster of round, wooden houses in the countryside. Kodawari Mizuno and his wife lived in one house and rented the rest to locals and Airbnb travelers ...

With the 2020 Summer Olympics on the horizon, prices are rising in Tokyo, Osaka and other major Japanese cities as fewer apartments go on the market. 13 Photos View Slide Show › By Marcelle Sussman ...