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Japan has both modern and traditional styles of housing. The traditional Japanese house is a beautiful sight to behold. Made of wood and paper, it has an organic feel and look that can be found nowhere else. Individual houses in Japan are either single or two stories.
The traditional Japanese house made of wood is expected to last about twenty years before having to be repaired or rebuilt. Each year it is depreciated, unlike homes here in the United States.
The interior design is what really sets the traditional Japanese house apart from European or American designs. With the exception of the entry way (genkan), the kitchen (daidokoro), the bathing room (sento) and the toilet (benjo), the rooms in a traditional Japanese house does not have a designated use.
A room can easily be a living area, a bedroom, a dining room or any combination. Large rooms are partitioned by fusuma, sliding doors made of wood and thick paper. The paper used for fusuma is called washi. These sliding doors can be removed whenever a larger space is needed.
In large traditional houses, there was one large room, or ima (living space) that could be divided as needed. The smaller rooms like kitchen, bath and toilet were small extensions to one side. Rouka, or wooden-floored hallways, follow the edge of the home. Windows are made of wood and shoji paper, which is thin enough to let the light shine through.
Even modern Japanese houses tend to have one traditional Japanese room, called a washitsu. This room is sparsely if at all furnished, and has tatami mats on the floor. In a traditional Japanese house, this style may be reflected throughout the home. Tatami are thick straw mats covered with stitched, woven rushes. Tatami are smooth and firm enough to walk on, while making a sleeping surface more comfortable than wood or stone.
The genkan is usually a step below the level of the rest of the house. When people enter the home, they leave their shoes in the genkan, pointed toward the door so they only need to slip them on when they are ready to go out. Indoor slippers are often worn inside the house.
The kitchen in most traditional Japanese homes will contain a stove with a very small oven and broiler and an electric refrigerator. Counter space for food preparation and a sink are also located in the kitchen.
The bathing room contains a tub and is often waterproof. An adjacent area is available for showering. The Japanese re-use bathwater, either for other bathers or for washing laundry, so it is important not to dirty the water with soap and dirt. Dirty portions of the body can be washed before stepping into the bath.
The toilet in Japan can either be a Western style toilet, or a squat toilet installed in the floor. The room containing the toilet is often only as large as a typical toilet stall, and the person using this room puts on special slippers while in this room.
Heating in the winter is traditionally supplied by a kotatsu. This is a low table with a heating element on the bottom. During cold weather, people sit around the table and keep the heat contained with a light duvet-type cover that surrounds the table.
Robin loves to learn about new countries and different cultures. You can read more of her latest country of interest, Japan, on her blog.
Gaijin Houses in Japan Also Known as Guest Houses
Can you imagine paying 8 month’s rent just to move into an apartment? Oh, and none of it will be returned! Well if you come to Japan and want an apartment this is a fact. That is where this other option comes in "Gaijin Houses" also known as Guest Houses!
A guest house or “gaijin house” as we say in Japan is an inexpensive type of accommodation for foreigners, who stay in Japan for one month or longer, and who want to avoid the hassle and the expense of renting and furnishing a regular apartment.
Renting an apartment in Japan not as expensive as most people think. But there are many fees applied when you move in. This is where it becomes a hassle. There is the realtor fee, deposit, gift money to the landlord, and a few others thrown in for fun. Each fee is equal to one month’s rent. Therefore your first month’s rent could be anywhere from 4-10 times the amount of rent. Only the deposit will be returned...hopefully.
There are many guesthouses in Tokyo, but they are sprouting up all across Japan. Guest houses are a much better deal. With only a small deposit and no extra fees, they provide safe, clean, affordable accommodation while searching for a long term apartment or on a short term stay. They come equipped with kitchen facilities, Internet access and laundry facilities, and each room is usually furnished with a small fridge, TV and a futon or bed. Since the actual features and overall quality of each guest house can vary enormously, however, a resource like Gaijin House Japan can make the difference between a successful and a miserable stay in Japan.
When trying to find a guest house it can be a dreary task not all guest houses have great English websites. And not knowing the country well you may have a hard time knowing where to look. Enter “Gaijin House Japan!” Gaijin House Japan’s main feature is a continually updated series of articles on every guest house across the length and breadth of Japan. Allowing travelers to comment on the guest houses they have stayed in, thus providing an "in person" view of Japanese guest houses - the good, the bad, and the dirty!
Features of Gaijin House Japan include:
- Guest House FAQ - All the common questions asked about Guest Houses.
- Guest House Articles - Detailed articles on every guest house across Japan, including photos, videos and travelers comments.
- Gaijin House Lounge - A friendly forum where members can talk about travel in Japan and share helpful tips.
- 100% FREE Classifieds – Look for share-mates, roommates, rooms, and even "sayonara sales" for selling your stuff when you leave Japan or buying stuff when you arrive.
- Useful Links - Learn even more at other recommended websites about Japan.
If you are planning on visiting Japan then this is a must bookmark website!
Helping travelers find the best guest houses across Japan as easy and quickly as possible. http://gaijinhousejapan.com
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A gaijin in Japan. I run http://gaijinhousejapan and http://japanlinked.com
What did the U.S do, that made Japan want to attack them (pearl harbor)?
The U.S had to have done something prior to Pearl Harbor, which provoked Japan in a way for them to want to attack the U.S. Can anyone explain the history between the two countries leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor? Thanks--
~FDR wanted to get the US into the war in Europe, but he knew the American people and Congress would not give him his desired declaration of war. In spite of all of the US violations of neutrality, up to and including his announcement during his Fireside Chat of 9/11/40 that he had ordered US Navy ships to fire on German warships, without provocation, whenever they were spotted in "US defensive waters" (which he describe as the entire Atlantic Ocean, especially from US ports, along the Canadian coast, past Greenland and Iceland to the beaches of the British Isles, and that he was ordering the transfer of several ships from the Pacific Fleet to the Atlantic Fleet to engage in hunter-killer missions he called "neutrality patrols", Hitler did not declare war on the US.
It was generally agreed amongst FDR and his advisers that if Japan could be provoked into attacking the US, that the inevitable war that would follow would be expanded to include US involvement in Europe as well. The McCollum Memorandum is but one document produced to lay out the means by which an attack could be provoked.
Specific provocations were numerous. There were repeated violations of treaties that limited the size of fleets and ships and their deployment. Roosevelt ordered the beefing up of bases within the Japanese sphere of influence and astride vital Japanese military and commercial sea lanes, like Clark Field and Subic Bay and elsewhere in the Philippines, on Guam, Wake and Midway, on Taiwan in at Pearl Harbor. He created an entire new army, the USAFFE, stationed it in the Philippines and brought Douglas MacArthur out of retirement to lead it, then he established the USAAFE and stationed the largest collection of US warplanes outside the US in the Philippines. The same day he created USAFFE, he ordered the seizure of all Japanese assets in the US. Despite claims of neutrality in the Second Sino-Japanese war, FDR had clearly chosen sides and sent all manner of aid to the Chinese to aid them in the war with Japan.
After France fell, Vichy France took over administration of Indochina. Vichy France became part of the Axis alliance. Japan was increasingly worried about overt US intervention in China and wanted a base of operations from which to prosecute the war in China and Korea that was farther removed from the reach of US ships and bombers and the Vichy government allowed them to use Indochina for that purpose. FDR sent aid to Ho Chi Minh and the Vietminh and promised the US would help them in their struggle for independence (Roosevelt would later double-cross Ho and the Vietminh at Tehran and Truman and Eisenhower would compound the treachery in 1945, 1946, 1952 and 1954 and the seeds of the Vietnam War were solidly sown, but our substantial aid to Ho and the Vietminh in 1940/41 was one of the many factors that caused the Tojo Cabinet to believe the only option was to launch Kido Butai).
In 1940, FDR ordered that the Pacific Fleet be transferred from San Diego to Pearl. Adm James Otto Richardson was CinCPac at the time. He protested the order, claiming that the move was an unnecessary provocation, likely to induce an attack and that the fleet could not be protected or defended at Pearl. He twice disobeyed his orders before transferring the fleet, but even after the move, he persisted in his objections and warnings. The post of CinCPac was offered to Adm Chester Nimitz. Nimitz refused the promotion because he, too, believed that stationing the fleet at Pearl was apt to provoke and attack, he knew the ships would be a sitting duck for a surprise carrier launched air attack (the likely manner in which an attack would come, and everyone knew that Japan had begun rehearsing such an attack - both from code intercepts and from on the scene US witnesses who made reports of the activity through State Department channels as early as January, 1940) and Nimitz knew that whoever was in charge would be the scapegoat and take the fall for FDR's stupidity. Adm Husband Kimmel took the job, but he echoed Richardson's and Nimitz's objections and warnings. When the attack came, Kimmel was blamed and relieved. Then Nimitz took the post, when he could actually do some good, and after rebuilding the fleet, designed the strategy that won the naval war.
Japan has never been able to feed her people or fuel her industry with the scant resources found on the home islands. Since Matthew Perry and the Black Ships, US policy had been to do its utmost to prevent Japan from expanding or becoming a vital military or economic power. By the time Japan got around to empire building, the Western nations (including the US, UK, France and the Netherlands particularly) had already grabbed the good places and Japan had nowhere to turn, without falling afoul of the Occidental powers, but China, Manchuria and Korea. When Japan turned her eyes on Asia, the Western world was terrified of the "Yellow Peril" and imposed embargoes of vital resources like rubber, oil and steal. As the tension mounted, the embargoes were extended and expanded.
Diplomacy wasn't working and the Tojo Cabinet decided that if a diplomatic solution wasn't reached by early October, a military solution would be pursued. When informed of the shift in policy in the Cabinet, Emperor Showa was incensed. He took the remarkable step of personally addressing the Cabinet to express his displeasure (the Japanese Emperor was little more than a figurehead and no emperor had ever personally addressed the Cabinet before Showa did). The had already been assassination plots against Showa, and Tojo was not to be discouraged. By various means, fair and foul, Tojo "persuaded" Showa to give tacit approval to a military solution, if and only if diplomacy failed. Showa had no power to stop (or start) a war or and invasion, but his rubberstamp approval was desirable and eventually, Tojo got it. The final straw was the Hull Note of November 26, 1941. The message made it absolutely clear that the US had any intention of finding a diplomatic solution on terms anywhere remotely acceptable to Japan and acceptance of US terms would have been suicidal to Japan's goal to become a leader in the modern industrial and economic world and Japan had been relegated to the ranks of second-rate wannbe nations by the West for too long already, as far as the Japanese were concerned. Sailing orders were issued and Kido Butai was underway.
Tojo and Yamamoto knew they couldn't win a war against the US if the US industrial base was mobilized against them. They had no intention of invading the US and hoped that by taking out the fleet at Pearl (and the other US and British bases that were struck on December 7, 1941 - Pearl Harbor was not the only target that was hit by any means), that the US would be forced to the peace table, would curtail the ever-increasing provocations, would return Japanese assets and would lift, or at least ease, the embargoes. At best, they hoped to buy the six to twelve months they believed were necessary to secured the rubber and oil of Malaysia. Had Genda been allowed to launch the third wave at the sub pens, dry docks, maintenance yards and oil storage facilities, had Nagumo been authorized to take out Midway on the way home and/or had the carriers been in port (Enterprise especially, as she should have been, but Enterprise had been delayed by weather but was close enough that she launched planes to participate in the battle on the 7th), the plan may have worked.
The attack was not a surprise, except, perhaps, as to the actual time; it will probably never be known with certainty whether or not FDR knew Kido Butai was en route before the attack. It was certainly not unprovoked. In hindsight, US policy obviously gave the Japanese no viable alternative. If, as the compelling circumstantial evidence seems to imply, provoking the attack was FDR's design, then US strategy worked remarkably well. In any case, on December 11, 1941, Hitler declared war on the US (he was not required to do so under the Tripartite Pact, which was a mutual defense treaty and applicable only if a signatory nation was attacked) and later that afternoon Congress declared war on Germany. FDR finally had the war in Europe that he wanted. (Of course, in the Pacific US troops and especially sailors saw action almost immediately but the the first ground force to come under fire in the European Theater wouldn't see action until almost a year later, in North Africa during Operation Torch in November 1942 and by then, the Red Army had pretty much determined the outcome of the war in Europe).
Japan's Miyazato leads Evian Masters
Mika Miyazato of Japan took the lead at the Evian Masters after the second round on Friday, shooting a 5-under 67 to move to 9 under and one stroke clear of Gwladys Nocera of France. Evian Masters - Japan - France - Asia - Michelle Wie
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