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IKEA has furnished and is renting out a 10 m2 apartment in central Tokyo for about a dollar per month. It's clearly a gimmick of sorts as the furniture in the apartment are worth a lot more then that. Still looking at the pictures it looks like living in a nicely furnished prison cell, that is also very high (floor to ceiling). Any takers for such compact living? I dont think climbing around on ladders to get around is for me.
It seems very futuristic though; it is a staple of sci-fi to pack people like sardines in a can (Ripley's apartment in aliens, 5th element etc., etc.)
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/25/business/ikea-japan-tokyo-tiny-apartment-scli-intl/index.html
https://www.ikea.com/jp/ja/campaigns/ca00-tiny-homes-pub616dcf20
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday November 28 2021, @08:59PM
Cultural thing... when you aren't happy about having to hire outsiders (not from your local neighborhood / family / known since birth) in the first place, any excuse to make things harder on the outsiders / easier for the locals is "standard practice."
Take a look around a Tokyo subway stop at rush hour. Not exactly the cultural melting pot you find in a lot of western metropolises.
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