A recent post on Reddit exposed a critical truth about Japan’s real estate market. A prospective buyer confessed, “I’ve spent months searching for a realtor for Bargain Japanese Properties in Morioka—only to find no one willing to touch them.”
When foreign or domestic buyers approach Japan’s countryside housing market, they almost always ask the same question: Why do I need to pay upfront?
Japan's hoarding problem is one of the country’s most widespread yet least acknowledged societal crises. Despite its prevalence across both urban and rural landscapes, discussion of it remains limited, stifled by cultural shame, bureaucratic inertia, and emotional...
Akiyaz recently appeared on NOS, the national broadcaster of the Netherlands, to help clarify what is really going on with cheap houses in Japan.
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