1R, XK, XDK, XLDK

The average size of an apartment is sixty seven square meters per household. Many agents will refer to the price of the apartment per tsubo (one tsubo = 3.3 sqm).

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AS ABOVE SO BELOW

What if the solution was not to destroy the existing city, but to build around, above and below it? With this radical reasoning, certain architects design Utopic plans to renovate Paris and Tokyo’s urban landscape and city lifestyles: a floor above the city’s zinc roofs, a city below the Seine or Edo River, or even an underground highway network.

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BENTO

Bento is a traditional meal box in Japan, which people bring with them in order to have it as lunch or dinner. Inside bento, many kinds of food are prepared in it. From the perspective of examining bento in detail, all these delicious dishes demonstrate the food system in Japan, which could be briefly separated into four phases: source of foods, distribution, manufacturing, and consumption.

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BÉTON

Concrete (“béton” in French) is a composite material composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement (cement paste) that hardens (cures) over time.

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敬称陛下
(HER MAJESTY THE EMPRESS)

Since the establishment of the Imperial Cocoonery by Empress Dowager Shōkun in 1871, sericulture is one of the traditional cultures within the Imperial Household. At the time of the institution’s foundation, silk was one of  Japan’s most important export products, and Imperial patronage was meant to promote the industry even further.

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