As Japan’s population ages, cities like Yubari have to choose between finding new ways to attract more residents or focusing ...

Japan's glut of abandoned homes — or akiya — has hit ... to entice residents to move from urban areas back to rural towns. Foreigners have jumped on the deals, snagging large properties ...

Nearly all of Wakayama's 30 towns, cities ... but it's hard for the government to knock down homes (even abandoned ones) because of Japan's sticky property rights laws. Before 2015, said McMorran ...

1. Japan is trying to lure people into rural areas by selling $500 homes, but it's not enough to fix the country's 'ghost town' problem While the US faces a shortage of homes, Japan is ...

Tucked away in Japan’s countryside, millions of abandoned homes – known as akiya – sit empty, waiting for a second life. With ...

While other countries have ghost towns, Japan has a whole ghost island! Hashima Island is located nine miles off the coast of Nagasaki. The island was developed by the Mitsubishi company in the ...

Thanks to the Japanese government’s reconstruction efforts and decontamination activities, added with decreasing radiation levels, the place is safe for occupation and is no longer a ghost town. Rea ...