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Japan is an archipelago located in monsoon East Asia. Of its total land area of 378 000 square miles, 66.6 per cent is forest and 13.7 per cent agricultural land. Developed land, which includes residential, industrial and other land, accounts for only 4.5 per cent; it is here that most of its cities and the great majority of its population of 123 million people live (HUDC 1998). Notwithstanding its rapid economic growth in the post-war period, resulting in Japan becoming one of the leading industrial nations, the living conditions of the great majority of the population are relatively poor and small houses occupy a large part of the built up areas.
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Hayakawa, K. (2002). Japan. In: Agus, M.R., Doling, J., Lee, DS. (eds) Housing Policy Systems in South and East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403919809_2
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