Moving to Japan presented challenges in practices like gift-giving and limited sick leave, and reshaped what I expected from ...

Would you live in a so-called “ghost village” if you only had to pay $500 for a house? Here in the United States, you can barely even get a studio apartment for that price. So why are these akiya ...

David Ellis' wife had spent years living far from her family for his career. When she wanted to return to Japan, it was his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dani and Evan Benton moved to Japan on a startup business visa in 2023. They bought an abandoned house for about $6,500 and turned ...

A small building nestled among rice fields in late June, when green rice plants are growing vigorously. Inside, around 20 ...

Simply saying the word “Japan” can bring up images of manga, maid cafes and neon lights. But for Dutch photographer Maan Limburg, Japan is a series of rural landscapes punctuated by empty houses. Her ...

Get these $500 fixer-uppers — so long as you can read a Japanese construction manual. Japan is riddled with millions of vacant homes, called akiya, that local governments hope will sell for next to ...

When Lee Xian Jie first stepped foot in the traditional farmhouse located in Ryujin-mura, a village in Japan's Wakayama prefecture, it was "quite rundown" — with floors so rickety they shook beneath ...

A woman who left her career in the stock market and opened a CrossFit gym in rural Japan said life in the countryside wasn't as slow-paced as some might think. Violet Pacileo told the Japanese website ...