Japan's glut of abandoned homes — or akiya — has hit ... because people don't want to live in a terminal village surrounded by 'ghost houses,'" McMorran said to Insider's Lina Batarags and ...
Dani and Evan Benton moved to Japan on a startup business visa in 2023. They bought an abandoned house for about $6,500 and turned it into a guesthouse. The couple have also started a homestead ...
Eric McAskill bought an abandoned house in Japan for 3.5 million Japanese yen ... and then usually it's somebody within a village who manages it." While Nozawaonsen — the village where he ...
Dani and Evan Benton moved to Japan on a startup business visa in 2023. They bought an abandoned house for about $6,500 and turned it into a guesthouse. The couple have also started a homestead with a ...
Japan has millions of abandoned rural houses for sale ... because people don't want to live in a terminal village surrounded by 'ghost houses,'" McMorran said. Natasha Durie, a PhD student ...
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 ...