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Genuinely curious, as the article is paywalled, but I wonder what necessitated the house having to come across the ocean? Could it not have been preserved or relocated somewhere within Japan?

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I imagine there are innumerable 300 year old houses being preserved in Japan and that crossing the ocean wasn't needed to preserve this particular one. But this will be able to be appreciated by people in Los Angeles without traveling so far. It seems similar to how Japanese art is already shown in Californian museums and how Californian art is shown in Japanese ones. "Genuinely curious" people like to be exposed to culture from other places.

I posted this unpaywalled link:

https://www.wsj.com/style/design/japanese-heritage-shoya-hou...

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