There, he and his family settled into an akiya — an abandoned home — in the countryside. "The akiya at the beginning of the move looked a little bit like a haunted house," Uchiyama ...

told Business Insider Singapore in 2021 that the Japanese countryside has been hollowing out since the mid-Nineties. In Japanese, Akiya translates to “empty house”. The term refers to a ...

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

The property became available under the Uozu city government’s “100-yen Akiya Bank” program, which was started this fiscal year to encourage sales of “akiya” abandoned homes by setting ...