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On 4 January 2016, a photograph showing a baseball stadium in Japan that purportedly had been repurposed as a housing project or residential neighborhood was posted to Reddit: Although the photograph is real and does picture several homes built within the walls of a baseball stadium, those structures never housed residents for any extended period of time. This photograph was taken by Japanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama in 1998, and although it is frequently shared with the claim that it depicts a residential neighborhood built inside a stadium, it's actually a picture of a group of model homes. According to the Japanese-language web site Fudoki, Osaka Stadium was once home to the Nankai Hawks baseball team, but when the Hawks moved to Heiwadai Stadium in 1988, the city of Osaka turned the stadium into an outdoor display area for model homes: The Online Photographer web site posted another image of the stadium, along with some background information about it from photographer Ned Bunnell: In short, it is true that several houses were assembled inside Osaka Stadium in the early 1990s, but these structures were merely model homes and were never used for long-term occupation by residents.
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