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Japan’s population is shrinking, right? didn’t read the article... no wsj subscription

• helen___keller 8y ago
  Tokyo is still growing, but not for much longer. I think it's expected to begin shrinking by 2020
• keeganjw 8y ago
  Houses in the country side are super abundant because so many young people moved to cities. But this article talks about housing Tokyo, where demand has been very strong over the last 20 years. They kept prices low by letting developers build lots of housing, densely. A lot of the housing policy is set by the central government and is more insulated from NIMBY complaints. Also, it's much more common for housing to be prefabbed in factories and assembled on site.