Japanology Plus explores Japanese life and culture. In this five-minute digest, we look at tiny houses: homes occupying around 50 square meters of land. They're appearing more and more in recent years, especially in crowded cities. Many of them feature unusual layouts and creative design. Low-cost prefabricated tiny houses, occupying as little as 12 square meters, are also gaining in popularity.

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