In the first report of these studies, we analyzed the housewives' ideas on daily life such as household tasks and leisure, and then how they make use of their standardized living space in the corporation housing. In furtherance of the last study, we report the finding how living space is utilized by the family as well as a housewife in the course of their daily life. To find out how much various furnitures and durable consumer goods occupy in this standard living space, the floor occupancy by the furnitures had been researched. Also further investigations had been made to find out a few problems which exist between floor space occupied by furnitures and the space available for family life.
The subject housings are the first report, namely, Kameido, Aoyama, Jindai.
Summarized results are as follows :
1. While multiple use of a room is evident in case of the smallest Jindai 2 DK type, functional uses of rooms are observed to a considerable extent in case of other Danchis.
2. In each Danchi, various furnitures and durable consumer goods are placed irrespective of the limited floor space.
3. Generally furnitures are placed in the appropriate rooms according to their functions of daily life. In some cases, however, it can be noted as a problem that Dining room is often reduced to a mere store room failing to function properly as Dining room and Kitchen.

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This study has a double purpose. One is to learn the actual housing situation of the family living in Tokyo in the standardized space provided by Japan Housing Corporation. The other purpose is to collect some data in order to better the living space of Japanese houses.
The subject of the present investigation is housewives who live in Kameido, Jindai and Aoyama dwellings in Tokyo. The investigation was carried out at the beginning of March, 1971.
Analyses are made to find out housewives' attitudes towards household chores and ways of spending leisure time, together with finding out the way of using house spaces according to their living activities.
The results are summarized as follows :
1. The housewives take a great interest in household chores, although they try to cut down the time spent on them.
2. About a half of the housewives investigated wish to spend leisure time rather conservatively, for instance by knitting and reading.
3. The average length of time for housekeeping is 6 hr and 4 min per day, and this is about a half of “at-home” time. The leisure time is 4 hr and a half, daily.
4. At any dwelling, housewives spend most of their time in the dining room and a room facing south. Especially, their stay in the dining room is longer than any other rooms. The dining room is used also for meal preparation.
5. Although the housewives investigated in this paper can spend a large portion of their time in the south rooms doing their housekeeping, few of them count the rooms indispensable for the housekeeping among the rooms they want in the south if the area facing south is limited. They rather desire to have living room and children's rooms in the south.

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