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kowenicki said:

SDick of this size of room myth too.  The average size of a house in Japan is almost identical to the average size of a house in the UK...

Ameicans in particular look at Japanese houses and think wow, they are so small... they are looking at it wrong... it is US houses that are so big.  All European and Far Eastern houses are small in comparison to the US/Canada/Australia. 

 

Figures from the 2003 Housing and Land Survey conducted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications indicate that Japan had 53,890,900 housing units at the time. Of these, 46,862,900 (86.9%) were occupied and 7,027,900 (13.0%) unoccupied. Of the occupied units, 28,665,900 (61.2%) were owned by the resident household. The average number of rooms per unit of housing was 4.77, the average total floor area in was 94.85 square meters (28.69 tsubo; 1,021.0 sq ft)

This is definitely true - I live in a decent sized house in the UK, but there's no way that I'd be able to make 8 foot distance between the wall and the TV in my house.



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