Japanology Plus explores Japanese life and culture ... feature unusual layouts and creative design. Low-cost prefabricated tiny houses, occupying as little as 12 square meters, are also gaining ...

Twenty campers and prefabricated houses set up at a site in Tachikawa in western Tokyo were shown to the media on Feb. 8, the day before the start of operations.

In Japan, for example, 15 percent of homes are prefabricated in steel. In Sweden, as much as 45 percent of construction is industrialized, and an estimated 85 percent of homes there have prefab ...