This paper explores how people from different countries perceive the current dwelling environment and update their schemata of dwelling environment after living in Japan based on an interview survey. ...The subject were non-Japanese 6 adults living in Tokyo. Seeing from the responses to changes in the way of living after living in Tokyo and the superordinate concepts of the cognitive structure related to dwelling environment preference criteria, six categories were classified, and two of which showed positive changes in a way of living, “adaptation/new” and “adaptation/alternative”, are estimated to indicate that the schemata of dwelling environment has been updated.
This paper discusses how people from different countries living in Tokyo perceive the current dwelling environment based on a questionnaire survey as a preliminary step to exploring the update of the ...schemata of the dwelling environment. The subjects were non-Japanese 30 adults living in Tokyo. Criteria for selecting the dwelling environment were extracted, and classified into six types. The findings suggest that the group that included the atmosphere and impression of the living space as selection criteria perceived the size of the room in which they currently live more positively regardless of duration of residence.
STIGMATIZED PROPERTIES IN TOKYO, JAPAN YAJIMA, Naonari; SADAYUKI, Taisuke
AIJ Journal of Technology and Design,
2022/06/20, Letnik:
28, Številka:
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This paper provides the first statistics on stigmatized properties in Tokyo, Japan, based on information posted by the general population on the website oshimaland.com. The data suggest that events ...are more likely to be posted when they are more recognizable to the public. In concrete terms, ratios of the numbers of posted events to the numbers of deaths reported in government statistics are much higher for homicides and fires than for suicides and solitary deaths. In addition, most deaths by homicides and fires are posted immediately after the events occur, whereas other events take longer to be posted.
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