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Japanese users prefer dense, busy websites

Ellsworth Toohey
Jan 05, 2026
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Yahoo Japan

If you’ve ever tried to apartment hunt in Japan from abroad, you’ve experienced the vertigo: real estate sites crammed with text, filters for things you didn’t know you needed to filter, and navigation that seems designed by committee during an earthquake. The Japan Times spoke with designers who work across cultures, and they said that what …

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