A room is a decision about how you want to be tired at the end of the day.

I live in forty-eight square metres in Tokyo with one good chair and far too many bowls, so I have had to mean that. I trained as an architect and left to write, which my teachers took badly. Uchi (内) means inside, and it means home: the room you come back to. The palette comes after the tiredness. So does the name on the lamp.

This is where I keep what the world's rooms are doing. Around seventy sources, read in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Italian, French and English: an apartment in Seoul, a house outside Taipei, a Copenhagen showroom seen from here rather than from Denmark. East first, because east is where I am sitting.

Each story is a headline, an excerpt of a few lines, one photograph and a link to whoever did the work. We never reprint the piece, and the photograph belongs to the person who took it. When a room was written up in Korean or Italian it stays in Korean or Italian here; the link takes you to the writer's own words.

I am not trying to be complete. I am trying to notice.

— Mio Tachibana, Tokyo

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每年10月13日的国际减灾日（IDDRR）旨在呼吁人们关注社区如何降低灾害风险的暴露度与脆弱性。该纪念日由联合国于1989年设立，旨在提供一个契机，共同探讨政府、社区和专业人士如何在灾害发生前加强防备并提升韧性。联合国减少灾害风险办公室（UNDRR）将2026年的主题定为“韧性始于家园”，将住房置于今年宣传活动的核心。

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