Jap.mw.17.xsThe Ukita family’s possessions displayed in front of their house before the family photograph for the Material World project. The family is situated on the two balconies of the upstairs bedrooms for this preliminary photograph. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo, Japan, called Kodaira City. Material World Project. {{Kazuo is a salary man who works in a book warehouse. His father is a doctor who helped them to buy their quiet suburban home. Sayo was a bookstore clerk before marriage and is now a homemaker. Family members are: Kazuo Ukita (45, father); Sayo Ukita (43, mother); Mio Ukita (9, daughter); Maya Ukita (6, daughter). (From Peter Menzel’s Material World: A Global Family Portrait Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions).}}