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Building a Simple House Can be Very Complicated

The Wall Street Journal

October 17, 2025

A software engineer spent six years and roughly $590,000 creating a single-story home on a mountain south of Tokyo

- BY J.S. MARCUS

The wooded, 1.5-acre lot is in the Amagi mountain range on Japan's Izu Peninsula. The home has a 150-square-foot terrace.

(BEN WELLER FOR WSJ.)

This story is from the October 17, 2025 edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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