related: population is shrinking and many properties have no buyers https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/26/national/japans-glut-abandoned-homes-hard-sell

related: population is shrinking and many properties have no buyers https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/26/national/japans-glut-abandoned-homes-hard-sell-bargains-opportunity-knocks https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/26/national/japans... -- "Over 8 million properties across Japan are unoccupied, according to a 2013 government report. Nearly a fourth have been deserted indefinitely, neither for sale nor rent. In Tokyo more than 1 in 10 homes are empty. And that figure is expected to soar in the coming decades as deaths outpace births"