Slender columns support a canopy that sweeps around the front of this family residence in Japan's Tokushima prefecture by Japanese firm Horibe Associates (+ slideshow). More about House in Naruto by Horibe Associates
Japanese architect Kazuhiko Kishimoto has combined a doctor's surgery and a courtyard house in a bulky building with tapered concrete feet (+ slideshow). More about Lifted-Garden House by Kazuhiko Kishimoto/acaa
This family house in Nara, Japan, is raised up on pilotis and residents have to enter using a staircase beneath the floor (+ slideshow). More about 4n house by Ninkipen!
Japanese studio FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects has completed a family house in Shiga, Japan, that is 27 metres long but only 2.7 metres wide (+ slideshow). More about Promenade House by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects
This boxy house in Kyoto by Yoshihiro Yamamoto Architects Atelier (YYAA) has a narrow body intended to recreate the proportions of Japanese government-built apartments of the 1950s, 60s and 70s (+ slideshow). More about Danchi Hutch by YYAA
A facade designed to look like a picture frame outlines a courtyard garden at this house in Hiroshima by Japanese studio UID Architects. More about Frame by UID Architects
This cantilevered wooden house by Japanese studio UID Architects hovers ten metres above the forest floor and has a hole underneath to let trees grow up inside (+ slideshow). More about +node by UID Architects
A long white staircase leads straight to the top floor of this small house in Tokyo by Japanese office Apollo Architects & Associates. More about Arrow by Apollo Architects & Associates
This guest house consists of interconnected boxes that meander between the trunks of cherry and pine trees in a forest near Yonago City, Japan (+ slideshow). More about Residence of Daisen by Keisuke Kawaguchi+K2-Design
This plain white house in Osaka Prefecture was designed by Japanese architect Takeshi Hamada to look as simple as a block of tofu (+ slideshow). More about House T by Takeshi Hamada
This house in Nagahama, Japan, by Tokyo-based Comma Design Office has half of its body raised above the ground to offer protection to a rooftop terrace (+ slideshow). More about House in Nagahama by Comma Design Office
Japanese studio Another Apartment has completed a house with an asymmetric roof on a narrow site in suburban Tokyo. More about Park House by Another Apartment
An 18-metre-long window offers panoramic views across Tokyo Bay from the living room of this house in Yokosuka by Japanese studio Tomoyuki Sakakida Architect and Associates (+ slideshow). More about Seascape House by Tomoyuki Sakakida Architect and Associates
Rooms spiral up from a garden courtyard to a rooftop terrace at this family house in Japan's Yamaguchi Prefecture by Tokyo studio Keiko Maita Architect Office. More about House J by Keiko Maita Architect Office
Windows of various shapes and sizes give this weekend retreat on the south-east coast of Japan the appearance of a children's shape-sorter toy. More about Nowhere but Sajima by Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects
This renovated family home in Japan by designer Yasunari Tsukada features large internal windows and a mezzanine loft, creating apertures and vantage points for looking into different rooms (+ slideshow). More about House in Takamatsu by Yasunari Tsukada
An opaque box appears to balance over see-through walls of glass and perforated steel at this house and pet shop in Saitama, Japan, by architecture studio Norisada Maeda Atelier (+ slideshow). More about Torus by Norisada Maeda Atelier
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Japanese studio PANDA gave this house in Tokyo a glazed ground floor, then enclosed it in a high concrete-block wall. More about ST-House by PANDA
This house in Tokyo by Apollo Architects & Associates has skylights in the roof and holes in the floor plates, allowing daylight to reach right down to the basement (+ slideshow). More about Neut by Apollo Architects & Associates