" “share houses,” where people with no connections with each other live together, are on the rise in Japan......A total of 18,649 such houses were registered on the Hituji Real Estate website, which specializes in share houses, as of March, up from 9,354 in March 2010....The average age of people who inquired about share houses last year was 28.9, with 77.8 percent of them women,"
Source: ‘Share houses’ growing on purpose
BY KOICHI TSUJIMURA
May 12th 2013
Japan Times
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