There was a community of houses on a hill in Daigo, Kyoto, where people other than average Japanese lived in peace and quiet for many years. Perhaps many worked night jobs, for otherwise I could not explain the corrugated metal covering all the windows.
      Considerable and humiliating discrimination is not rare in Japan, depending upon one's country of origin or family tree. Every last house in this wide area was recently claimed or bought, and razed in 1999. Large apartment buildings and tight groups of modern family homes are planned, and the current price of the land is astronomical when compared with its former underutilized, but unpretentious, condition.