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I’m certainly not the first one who’s noticed that Japanese apartment buildings often have weird English names (I can think of Tony László in one of the ダーリンは外国人 books.) In fact, I moved into my very own “Palace Mansion” myself a couple weeks ago. No, really. That’s the name of the place.

A mansion? By Japanese standards, yes.¹ A palace? Um… not quite. Take a look—here are some pictures from my move-in.

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I don’t think those two were related.