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 ...

“The new Japanese Heritage Shōya House will offer a glimpse into rural Japanese life some 300 years ago and provide insights into that culture and its sustainability practices,” Karen ...

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 ...