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refers to the typically wooden strip of flooring immediately before windows and storm shutters inside traditional Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese rooms. Recently this term has also come to mean the veranda outside of the room as well, which was traditionally referred to as a .
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