Premise: The postwar obsession with comfort, convenience, and the latest electronic gadgetry has led most Japanese to forsake the traditional, simple, and elegant house of wooden walls, heavy tiled roofs, tatami-mat floors, and sliding panels for a modern  Western-style  house designed to exchange the austerity of the past for the prosperity of the future.

Hypothesis: Most people in Japan live in traditional style homes because they don't like Western-style homes.
Relation: contradiction