Nyororin I do understand what happened and why we've ended up with so many ugly buildings in Japan but I guess my point is that it's a real shame that they let the new development happen the way it did and how they let it continue right into modern times well after the immediate period following the war. Japan has some amazing architects and architecture but the average house built seems to be little more than utilitarian. Aesthetics barely seems to come into it. Hokkaido was really bad in this respect. When I travelled down south it wasn't quite as bad.
MMM you may be right but I still fail to understand how anyone of any cultural persuasion wouldn't get pleasure from waking up in the morning with a view towards this
