( If any HNers want a short and comprehensible-to-a-nonspecialist gloss of Japanese zoning in English, you can read this: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.jp/2014/04

( If any HNers want a short and comprehensible-to-a-nonspecialist gloss of Japanese zoning in English, you can read this: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.jp/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html http://urbankchoze.blogspot.jp/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html )