Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

A new book from Phaidon chronicles the unconventional style of Japanese residential design. There’s a surfeit of unorthodox, wildly creative Japanese houses out there, and 400 of them are packed into ...

This wood-clad Japanese contemporary home in Niseko blends into a secluded forest of birch and pine trees yet is minutes from some of the best skiing in Japan and all of Asia. “Niseko is Asia’s ...

It is all about the progression through the spaces. We have often seen new Japanese houses that are...weird, and certainly not "traditional." Sumiou Mizumoto of Alts Design Office shows us a new house ...

Philadelphia’s historic Shofuso Japanese House and Gardens was built in Japan back in 1953. Designed by the architect Junzo Yoshimura, Shofuso was originally constructed for the Museum of Modern Art ...

"It's been in the family for generations. There was never a question of selling it," Matsukane Imai told Business Insider about the guesthouse in Japan.

When Masaya Kobayashi moved to Tokyo after graduating from a college in Kanazawa, he thought about renting an apartment at first. But he discovered that the monthly rent alone would cost around ...