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 ...

Japan has about 8.5 million akiya, or abandoned homes, in the countryside. The nation's shrinking population and internal ...

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

Thanks to a multitude of factors — the weak yen, inbound tourism and the proliferation of YouTube channels on the subject, to name a few — akiya, or abandoned houses, are more prominent than ...

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 ...