Yosuke Hirayama is Professor of Housing and Urban Studies at Kobe University in Japan. He is the author of several books on housing and urban transformations in Japanese, and has also published widely in international housing and urban research journals. He is a founding member of the Asia Pacific Housing Research Network.Richard Ronald is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and was formerly a Research Fellow at Kobe University in Japan. He is the former recipient of the Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellowship and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship.

• 1. Introduction 2. Reshaping the Housing System 3. Transformations in Housing Construction and Finance 4. Welfare Regime Theories and the Japanese Housing System 5. Turning Stock into Cash Flow 6. Housing, Family and Gender 7. Social Exclusion and Homelessness 8. The Japanese Home in Transition 9. Situating the Japanese Housing System

"A valuable addition to the housing literature." - Housing Studies"...offers an engaging and fairly comprehensive overview of the context for housing in Japan." -- Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 37/No. 1/2015

Yosuke Hirayama is Professor of Housing and Urban Studies at Kobe University in Japan. He is the author of several books on housing and urban transformations in Japanese, and has also published widely in international housing and urban research journals. He is a founding member of the Asia Pacific Housing Research Network.Richard Ronald is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and was formerly a Research Fellow at Kobe University in Japan. He is the former recipient of the Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellowship and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship.

• 1. Introduction 2. Reshaping the Housing System 3. Transformations in Housing Construction and Finance 4. Welfare Regime Theories and the Japanese Housing System 5. Turning Stock into Cash Flow 6. Housing, Family and Gender 7. Social Exclusion and Homelessness 8. The Japanese Home in Transition 9. Situating the Japanese Housing System

"A valuable addition to the housing literature." - Housing Studies"...offers an engaging and fairly comprehensive overview of the context for housing in Japan." -- Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 37/No. 1/2015

Yosuke Hirayama is Professor of Housing and Urban Studies at Kobe University in Japan. He is the author of several books on housing and urban transformations in Japanese, and has also published widely in international housing and urban research journals. He is a founding member of the Asia Pacific Housing Research Network.Richard Ronald is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and was formerly a Research Fellow at Kobe University in Japan. He is the former recipient of the Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellowship and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship.

• 1. Introduction 2. Reshaping the Housing System 3. Transformations in Housing Construction and Finance 4. Welfare Regime Theories and the Japanese Housing System 5. Turning Stock into Cash Flow 6. Housing, Family and Gender 7. Social Exclusion and Homelessness 8. The Japanese Home in Transition 9. Situating the Japanese Housing System

"A valuable addition to the housing literature." - Housing Studies"...offers an engaging and fairly comprehensive overview of the context for housing in Japan." -- Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 37/No. 1/2015