and doing this in Japan seemed feasible, especially considering that the country has 8.5 million akiya, or abandoned houses, in rural areas for sale. It helped that Evan also speaks Japanese ...

The number is set to increase as Japan's population shrinks, ages, and moves from rural to urban dwellings. Akiya also includes abandoned condominiums. According to Nikkei, owners who leave their ...

Kyoko Watanabe moved to Miyagi Prefecture to help with disaster relief efforts following 3/11. She ended up building a ...

Kimura says that he is often told by people to whom he gives tours of the city from around Japan that they too have many decaying, abandoned buildings and vacant houses in their own hometowns. Nozawa ...

Japan’s Shockingly Cheap Homes Go Viral – What’s the Catch? Abandoned homes in Japan are selling for as low as RM14,909.

Tucked away in Japan’s countryside, millions of abandoned homes – known as akiya ... or you could make money by doing Airbnb.” Rural homes can be found for as little as $10,000, but ...

TOKYO >> On an island off the coast of Nagasaki, ruins that seem on the verge of collapse stand clustered behind a high ...

Dreamland is a theme park located in Nara, Japan which opened in 1961 ... the newer attraction and was eventually closed and left abandoned in 2006. Many of the props, rides and games were ...

A Japanese company called Bike Off Co. started a free bicycle rental service for college students. But bicycles cost money, so where does income come from? From illegally parked or abandoned two ...