Japan has a population of 65.438+0.27 billion, ranking tenth in the world, with a land area of 377,000 square kilometers. The population density is 336 people per square kilometer, ranking seventh among countries with a population of over 10 million. At the same time, there are many mountains and high forest coverage. Why do many Japanese people still own their own single-family houses (a family building) in anime and Japanese dramas when land should be scarce?
This is actually quite understandable. To put it simply, most people in megacities with a large population live in apartment buildings, and people in small rural cities live in one building (that is, two-story buildings that are common in animated Japanese dramas).
In 2008, the proportion of one household and one house in Japan was 55.3%, so the "majority" of "most Japanese have one household and one house" seen in animated Japanese dramas is probably just over half. This figure is 56.3% after five years, and 57.5% after 1998, but it is still gradually decreasing.
Living in your own house (whether it's a family building or an apartment building) is naturally completely different from renting a house. How big is the difference? The average residential area is 122.6 square meters, and the average rental area is 45.5 square meters, a difference of nearly 3 times. But if we consider that there are a large number of single people in the rented house, the per capita difference is not that big.