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[edit] Do Japanese houses tend to be made from wood?

I removed a sentence:

Because there are many earthquakes in Japan, Japanese houses still tend to be made from wood, a flexible material, rather than brick or stone.

Maybe I was in a different Japan, but I didn't see many newly built wood houses there. I'd say Japan is rather suffering from a "love affair with concrete", as somebody said on his webpage. Maybe this will change in the future, but there is not much to be seen of a return to wooden houses as of 2005. -- Mkill 15:34, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

What nonsense. I live in a juutakugai where there are new houses being put up all the time, and most of them are wood framed. One of my friends in the construction industry (she's a kenchikushi 2-kyu, if you know what that means) says she has never built anything but a wooden house. --DannyWilde 00:36, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

I added a reference, actually the first hit on Google with the words "wooden construction Japan". It wasn't exactly hard to verify this fact, so I wonder why we even needed to have this discussion. --DannyWilde 03:04, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

1. Well, you added the link of a wood construction company. Of course they claim it is the method that is used most often.
2. But there is a difference between a "wooden post and beam construction system", and a "house made from wood". The difference is in what the walls are made of.
3. In fact I know what a 建築士二級 is. Yes I know people who work in the Japanese construction industry. Yes it completely doesn't matter here.
4. Check the third hit in Google [1], quote: "nonwood homes which comprised about 60 percent of all 1988 housing starts". So wooden homes have a larger share than I though, but looks like they are not the majority. -- Mkill 00:19, 15 November 2005 (UTC)