In Japan, the Big Fancy House takes a meaning well beyond what it does in the US or UK. Japan is a very-densely populated nation -- equivalent to packing half of the USA's population in a space roughly the size of Montana -- which results in some of the highest real estate prices in the world. This is doubly the case in Tokyo and other big cities where even the smallest homes can cost 100 million yen ($1 million US) and up. Consequently, a large home with a lot of space around it is fantastically expensive, and indicates its owner has more money than the rest of the cast combined.