Inheritance taxes may be controversial in the U.S. but they are especially steep in Japan. So steep, in fact, that residents who inherit land (and can not afford to pay the exorbitant fees) are ...

Tomoya and Naomi Sato, looking to buy a home in one of the world’s most expensive cities, bought a tiny plot of land in a crowded residential neighborhood in central Tokyo. The land was steps from a ...

Some newer houses around the country are barely wider than a common family car. From left, Takina Shimura and his parents, Tomoko Shimura and Yoshiki Shimura, in their compact house in Zushi, Japan, a ...

Architecture studio SANAA's co-founder Kazuyo Sejima is opening three iconic homes to the public with the Tokyo House Tour, ...

Soho House Tokyo will open in the upmarket Aoyama district. By Abid Rahman International Editor, Digital Soho House will finally reach Japan, after the global private members club for creatives ...

TOKYO—Kazutaka Niijima is in charge of giving away houses in Tokyo. It isn’t as easy as it sounds. On a recent morning, Mr. Niijima visited one of his properties, a century-old wooden house on a ...