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That sounds awful, glad you seem to have mostly gotten over it. Hope no one else in the house picked it back up from you?
Glad you didn't have to deal with that wretched coughing. I wonder if the new strains gotten weaker at that.
Btw, does every house have a Japanese room? It's pretty rare for modern construction to have more than one, right? Outside of guest houses and such anyway.
Whenever I used to make sweeping statements (eg about toilets or something) about Japan, there would be fifteen different responses from people around Japan saying I was wrong, often with pictorial evidence. So with that in mind, yeah, every house has at least one smallish (or large) tatami room or 和室/washitsu. In fact when I lived in apartments this was also true of apartments, as long as it isn't a one-room of course. More than one, probably not, unless the whole house itself is a traditional structure, as you suggest.
Edit: Everybody got it, though it only made my 15 year old feel like he has a sore back, my wife has no fever but coughs a lot. My youngest is like When's dinner?
My two-bedroom apartment, built in 1973, does not have a 和室. It was renovated more recently, though, so maybe it had one before I moved in.
As they say, the fastest way to find out a fact online isn't to ask....
I've probably lived in 6 apartments here and now a house, and all of them has had a tatami room, but there you go. I guess not everywhere has them.
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