Many young Japanese adults choose to live with their parents, rather than seeking a separate residence, a phenomenon known as parasite singles (パラサイトシングル). A 1998 survey by the Ministry of Health and Welfare indicated that about 60% of single Japanese men and 80% of single women between the ages of 20 and 34 lived with their parents. After marriage, the young couple often live in the same house as their parents. A desire for some separation between the generations has led to the phenomenon of nisedaijūtaku See also:

Housing in Japan, Housing in Japan - Interior design, Housing in Japan - Genkan, Housing in Japan - Bedroom, Housing in Japan - Kitchen, Housing in Japan - Bath, Housing in Japan - Utilities, Housing in Japan - Heating, Housing in Japan - Electricity, Housing in Japan - Automobiles, Housing in Japan - Construction, Housing in Japan - Construction materials, Housing in Japan - Housing regulations, Housing in Japan - Living patterns, Housing in Japan - Home ownership, Housing in Japan - Traditional housing

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Rooms commonly found in houses include: Bathroom Bedroom Dining room Kitchen Living room Great room Other rooms in houses: Entry Family room Recreation room (sometimes shortened to rec room) Bonus room Study (office, library) Laundry room Mudroom Furnace room Workshop Basement Pantry Storag ...

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Room, Room - Rooms in a house, Room - Other rooms, Room - Other meanings

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Because of the high cost of housing in major Japanese cities, many families and individuals rent apartments rather than owning their own home. Traditionally, Japanese landlords collect "key money" before the renter takes occupancy. In major cities like Tokyo and Osaka, key money is often a major investment in itself: up to six months' rent in many cases. In recent years many landlords have begun demanding smaller amounts of key money, equal to two or three months' rent. An industry of no-deposit apartments, called monthly mansionSee also:

Housing in Japan, Housing in Japan - Interior design, Housing in Japan - Genkan, Housing in Japan - Bedroom, Housing in Japan - Kitchen, Housing in Japan - Bath, Housing in Japan - Utilities, Housing in Japan - Heating, Housing in Japan - Electricity, Housing in Japan - Automobiles, Housing in Japan - Construction, Housing in Japan - Construction materials, Housing in Japan - Housing regulations, Housing in Japan - Living patterns, Housing in Japan - Home ownership, Housing in Japan - Traditional housing

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The edge city as Garreau knows it is fundamentally impossible without the automobile. It was not until automobile ownership surged in the 1950s, after four decades of fast steady growth, that the edge city became truly possible. Whereas every American central business district (CBD) or secondary downtown that developed around nonmotorized transportation or the streetcar has a pedestrian-friendly grid pattern of relatively narrow streets, most edge cities instead have a hierarchical street arrangement centered arou ...

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Edge city, Edge city - Definitions, Edge city - History, Edge city - The Future of Edge Cities, Edge city - Criticisms, Edge city - List of edge cities by urban area, Edge city - Atlanta, Edge city - Baltimore, Edge city - Chicagoland, Edge city - Dallas/Fort Worth, Edge city - Detroit, Edge city - Indianapolis, Edge city - Los Angeles, Edge city - Milwaukee, Edge city - Philadelphia, Edge city - San Francisco Bay Area, Edge city - Seattle, Edge city - Washington D.C.

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Writing for Fannie Mae, Lang and Lefurgy (2003) note that edge cities may turn out to have been a 20th-century phenomenon only because of their limitations. The residents of the low-density housing areas around them are fiercely resistant to their outward expansion (as has been the case in Tyson's Corner and Century City), but because their internal road networks are severely limited in capacity, densification is far more difficult than in the traditional grid network that characterizes traditional CBDs and secondary downtowns. (Construction ...

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Edge city, Edge city - Definitions, Edge city - History, Edge city - The Future of Edge Cities, Edge city - Criticisms, Edge city - List of edge cities by urban area, Edge city - Atlanta, Edge city - Baltimore, Edge city - Chicagoland, Edge city - Dallas/Fort Worth, Edge city - Detroit, Edge city - Indianapolis, Edge city - Los Angeles, Edge city - Milwaukee, Edge city - Philadelphia, Edge city - San Francisco Bay Area, Edge city - Seattle, Edge city - Washington D.C.

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Edge city - Atlanta. Marietta-Cobb County Gwinnett Sandy Springs Edge city - Baltimore. Owings Mills Edge city - Chicagoland. Aurora/Naperville Deerfield Rosemont Schaumburg Edge city - Dallas/Fort Worth. Arlington Irving Edge city - Detroit. New Center (Detroit, Michigan) Southfield ...

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Edge city, Edge city - Definitions, Edge city - History, Edge city - The Future of Edge Cities, Edge city - Criticisms, Edge city - List of edge cities by urban area, Edge city - Atlanta, Edge city - Baltimore, Edge city - Chicagoland, Edge city - Dallas/Fort Worth, Edge city - Detroit, Edge city - Indianapolis, Edge city - Los Angeles, Edge city - Milwaukee, Edge city - Philadelphia, Edge city - San Francisco Bay Area, Edge city - Seattle, Edge city - Washington D.C.

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Byron was first settled around 1807. The Town of Byron was incorporated in 1820 from part of the Town of Bergen. Byron was traditionally a rural area of dairy and vegetable farms, but is increasingly becoming a bedroom community for Rochester and Batavia. ...

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Byron New York, Byron New York - History, Byron New York - Geography, Byron New York - Demographics, Byron New York - Communities and locations in Byron

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During the early morning of June 7, 1936, an intoxicated Bethea entered Edwards' bedroom. To gain access to her room, he climbed onto the roof of an outbuilding next door, jumped from there onto the roof of the servant’s quarters of Emmett Wells' house, and then walked down a wooden walkway. He climbed over the kitchen roof to Edwards' bedroom window. After removing a screen from her window, he entered the room, waking her. Bethea then strangled Edwards and violently raped her. Once she was dead, he searched for valuables and stole ...

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Rainey Bethea, Rainey Bethea - Growing up, Rainey Bethea - The crime and discovery, Rainey Bethea - Trial and appeals, Rainey Bethea - Hanging, Rainey Bethea - Notes

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Storage: Bookcase Cabinet (furniture) Chest China cabinet Cupboard Dresser (Chest of drawers) Sideboard Wardrobe Seating: Bench Chair Couch Footstool Love seat Ottoman Recliner Settee Sofa Stool (type of chair) Surfaces: Coffee table Desk End table Folding table Table Sets: Bedroom set (group) Dinette (group) Dining ...

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Furniture, Furniture - Furniture design, Furniture - Furniture types, Furniture - Selected Bibliography, Furniture - Related Links

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As for the commoners, be they mandarins, merchants or farmers, their houses tended to follow a set pattern: the centre of the building would be a shrine for the deities and the ancestors, which would also be used during festivities. On its two sides were bedrooms for the elders; the two wings of the building (known as "guardian dragons" by the Chinese) were for the junior members of the family, as well as the living room, the dining room, and the kitchen,althoug ...

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Chinese architecture, Chinese architecture - Features, Chinese architecture - Classification by structure, Chinese architecture - Imperial architecture, Chinese architecture - Commoner architecture, Chinese architecture - Religious architecture

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Yokohama is located on a peninsula facing the western side of Tokyo Bay, 30 kilometers (18 miles) from Tokyo, to which it is connected by a half-dozen railway lines as well as expressways and surface streets. Although the city is largely a bedroom community for people commuting to Tokyo, it also has a strong local economic base, especially in the shipping, biotechnology, and semiconductor industries. Nissan will move its headquarters to ...

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Yokohama, Yokohama - History, Yokohama - Geography, Yokohama - Wards, Yokohama - Yokohama in fiction

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In the "mirror scene," Harpo, dressed as Groucho, pretends to be Groucho's reflection in a missing mirror, matching and mocking his every move. Eventually, Chico, also disguised as Groucho, collides with both of them. This scene has been duplicated in many different films and genres. In another famous scene the Marx Brothers poke fun at the Hays Code by showing a woman's bedroom and then showing a woman's shoes on the floor, a man's shoes and horseshoes. Harpo is sleeping in the bed with a horse. One production number ridicules war b ...

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Duck Soup, Duck Soup - Famous scenes, Duck Soup - Trivia

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The term dominatrix is most commonly used to describe a professional dominant woman (or pro-domme) who charges money to engage in fantasy play with submissive clients, but in reality most dominatrices are not professionals, but lifestyle dominants. A lifestyle dominant is a person who is assertive and in control of their relationships both inside and outside the bedroom. Women who engage in female domination recreationally are known as Dommes, Dominatrices, or simply Dominants, but are rarely referred to as Dominatrixes. ...

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Dominatrix, Dominatrix - Professional versus lifestyle dominatrices, Dominatrix - Notable dominatrices, Dominatrix - Fictional dominatrices

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After several neighbors saw her cowhiding a young servant girl in the mansion's courtyard, rumors began to spread around town that Mme. Lalaurie treated her servants viciously. One young girl had been attending to Mme. Lalaurie in the upstairs bedroom. While brushing the hair of Mme. Lalaurie, the young servant hit a snag in Delphine's hair, causing Lalaurie to become enraged. The girl ran away from Delph ...

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Delphine LaLaurie, Delphine LaLaurie - The Horrors, Delphine LaLaurie - Death, Delphine LaLaurie - The Haunted House

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The university has three dormitories for students. Burton and Baldwin dormitories provide housing for male students while Davis dorm remains the lone female dormitory. Upperclassmen are able to live in the Harrison apartments which offer a living area consisting of four bedrooms, a living room, a fully equiped kitchen and a laundry room. The M. B. Myers Fine Arts Center houses the music and theater departments. It was constructed in 1977 as a student's center, but wa ...

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Faulkner University, Faulkner University - Campus information, Faulkner University - Student life, Faulkner University - Contact information

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Suppose you own a copy of the book The Last Unicorn. If you tell someone, "My copy of the book is on the lightstand in my bedroom," that's like a URL — you're telling someone where something is. But if you tell someone, "I read a neat book; it's called The Last Unicorn," then that's like a URN — you're telling someone the name of something. A person who knows where a particular copy is can get ...

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Uniform Resource Name, Uniform Resource Name - Comparison with URLs, Uniform Resource Name - Examples

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A privately-owned luxury Boeing 747 complete with piano bar, office, and bedroom, is used to ferry invited guests to an estate owned by wealthy philanthropist Philip Stevens (James Stewart). Valuable artwork is also onboard the jetliner, motivating a group of thieves led by co-pilot Chambers (Robert Foxworth) to hijack the aircraft in the hopes of landing it on an island in the Bahamas and make off with the art. Once pilot Don Gallagher leaves the cockpit, the hijackers' plans go into motion. A gas is released to cause unconsciousness ...

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Airport '77, Airport '77 - Plot, Airport '77 - Cast

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The split-level home offers a convenient way to accommodate uneven property during construction. Since the main floor is about halfway above the basement, the house can be built into the side of a slope or soft hill, providing a very efficient use of space. Moving throughout this type of home can be easier for people with disabilities, since less steps are required to go from the bedrooms to the rest of the hous ...

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Split level home, Split level home - Advantages, Split level home - Disadvantages, Split level home - Famous split-level homes

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Maverick inventor Allie Fox finds little support for his inventions in the United States. Because of this, he moves to the Mosquito Coast in Honduras, dragging his wife and four children with him. Under Allie's authoritarian leadership the family and employees build with hard work a settlement in the jungle. It includes an ice factory, providing useful cooling for the settlement and the region. One day three armed men demand to stay at the settlement. The threat and loss of freedom is countered by making a bedroom for the men in the i ...

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The Mosquito Coast, The Mosquito Coast - Plot, The Mosquito Coast - External link

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The operetta is set in 1885, near the Dragoman Pass, in Bulgaria. A Swiss mercenary in the Serbian army, Lieutenant Bumerli, hides from the Bulgarians in the bedroom of Nadina Popoff, the daughter of a Bulgarian colonel, setting female hearts on fire. Nadina's wedding is ruined when Bumerli is recognised as a fugitive, but in the end Nadina finds true love with Bumerli. While Arms and the Man carried a pacifist message, and had political ove ...

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The Chocolate Soldier, The Chocolate Soldier - Plot, The Chocolate Soldier - External link

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"A Girl's Bedroom", drawn by a 10 year old using Tux Paint. "Girl and Zaurus", drawn on a Sharp Zaurus PDA "Golden Gate Bridge", drawn by a 29 year old using Tux Paint. (See also: the Tux Paint Artist Gallery) ...

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Tux Paint, Tux Paint - Overview, Tux Paint - Features, Tux Paint - Basic Drawing Tools, Tux Paint - Interacting with the Operating System, Tux Paint - Advanced Drawing Tools, Tux Paint - Parental and Teacher Controls, Tux Paint - Example Artwork, Tux Paint - Press

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Jimmy Stewart plays the role of L.B. Jeffries (known as 'Jeff'), a professional photographer who has been confined to his bedroom after an accident has left him with his leg in a cast. Suffering from boredom, he takes to spying on his neighbors through the rear window. Over time, he comes to believe that a murder has taken place, though his friends and his girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly) think his beli ...

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Rear Window, Rear Window - Description, Rear Window - Analysis, Rear Window - Legacy

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