My Japanese house is earthquake proof because of the wooden poles at the bottom. As they have rubber foundations inside them, when an earthquake strikes, the wooden poles break, the rubber takes the impact, leaving the house rocking from side to side - hopefully leaving the house in one piece and not hurting anybody inside or outside the house. After the earthquake, the owners would build new wooden poles at the bottom of the house. It would take at least 3-5 days to get the house back to normal depending on how strong the  earthquake was. It could even be at least 2 weeks to repair the house.
Tyson

My house is made from rubber to make it earthquake proof. The windows ahd doors are made from Japan's rice paper. The roof is made from corrugated cardboard. Japanese homes have their names on the front of the house like this house (written by some Japanese students). These are the names of the people that live in the house.
Ciara

My Japanese house was constructed over a period of 3 days. The 1st stage was the design. Some of the decisions I faced in the 1st stage were:
1. What materials to use to try to imitate Japanese houses?
2. What materials are suitable for earthquake areas?
3. What size to make the house?
The second stage was measuring and cutting the separate pieces. Because this involved sharp knives I asked my father for help in this stage.
The third stage was gluing and assembling the floors, walls and roof and finally painting. Again, I had some help putting some of the smaller pieces in place.
In general, the house has been built to copy the Japanese use of timber and paper. I have used balsa to represent the timber and tissue paper to represent the walls.
These are light and easily reconstructed in case of earth movements. The house also has joints above the door. In real construction these joints would be used at all windows as well. The joints allow different sections of walls to move up or down in slight earth tremors without causing a major collapse.
Erin

My house is earthquake proof because it has cork stabilizers, which absorb shockwaves. It is also made with wood because wood doesn't crack and is more flexible than cement, this wood is also light so it wont hurt anyone. It has a Shinto shrine style roof.
Ben