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Cake day: December 26th, 2023

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  • If California just built Japanese homes using their methods and their materials, homes that are already multiple generations into being built from the ground up to withstand earthquakes, fires, and floods, it would severely curtail suburban destruction without doing anything else.

    “But Japanese homes are designed to be torn down.”

    The ramshackle construction during the bubble in the 1970s and 1980s were not built with longevity in mind, yes. Modern Japanese homes are very different and can easily last for generations.

    In 30 years Japan is going to be nothing but a patchwork of pre-war and post-2000 construction.