> ... an unsettling trend, however. Across our neighborhood, houses are being sold as their elderly owners pass away. The houses are torn down and rebuilt and their exuberant gardens paved over. Many plots that once hosted single idiosyncratic homes are being replaced with multiple identikit houses, and not a tree or lawn in sight.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241002/p2a/00m/0op/005000c
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