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Buying an Abandoned House in Japan — for Free

Abandoned Houses in Japan are everywhere, about 13.5% of all the homes so the Akiya Bank is here to help fill those empty houses and it’s open to foreigners too. Kobayashi in Miyazaki is a great place to live for those looking — for a free home! Where is Kobayashi? Kobayashi Miyazaki https://goo.gl/maps/Shqj3kbRX262

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Vern Dietsche (aka UFO Bob)

This video has me seriously thinking of moving to Japan. If I were to start collecting my SS I would have more than enough to support myself there.

Iskandar Taib

The topic of this video reminded me of a movie I watched a couple years ago at our local Japanese Film Festival. It was set in a 1970s housing project - large apartment buldings, each maybe 6-7 stories tall, and in the process of being abandoned as children who grew up there moved away and the only residents left being older couples and widows/widowers. Shared facilities such as playgrounds and pre-schools were now unused and falling into disrepair. Apparently this is a HUGE problem in Japan, even around Tokyo - lots of old housing projects like this. The main characters were a retired pharmacist and his wife. There were still a few residents left, as with any housing in Japan there was a residents' association with regular meetings, and this was when they'd all see each other. One day the pharmacist dissapeared - he didn't show up for the meetings, when (nosy) neighbors visited, they'd only see the wife. Rumors started - did he run off with another woman, or did she kill him and was hiding the body?

Storm Knight

If I can live there, I would welcome whatever taxes are required to own a home in Japan, especially around Tokyo or southern Japan.