you get this itch where you just want to get an akiya and start renovating an old house in the Japanese countryside," Byron told Insider. Rural areas in Japan have also become more accessible to ...

Deborah and Jason Brawn bought an abandoned house in rural Japan ... was in Mitocho, a small town near Masuda city, where they found the perfect akiya — a traditional Japanese house constructed ...

Both had been raised in the countryside: Kimberly, who is Japanese-American on her mother’s side, grew up in rural Alaska ... raze the house, and build a dozen small houses on it, but he ...

With a shrinking population and more than 10 million abandoned properties, the country is straining to match houses ... of rural living,” Mr. Allen said. “The fact that property in the ...

Get these $500 fixer-uppers — so long as you can read a Japanese construction manual ... especially in rural prefectures such as Wakayama, Tokushima, Kagoshima and Kochi. In these regions ...

“I love nature, so I thought it was a great idea to have a house ... homes in rural Japan. The trend has coincided with Japan facing a severe population decline: The number of Japanese is ...

Would you live in a so-called “ghost village” if you only had to pay $500 for a house? Here in the United ... selling for such a bargain in Japan? Rural Japanese While the U.S. housing market ...

Due to the shrinking population and internal migration toward cities, there are millions of unoccupied houses in rural Japanese towns ... It was in Mitocho, a small town near Masuda city, where ...