When Masaya Kobayashi moved to Tokyo after graduating from a college in Kanazawa, he thought about renting an apartment at first. But he discovered that the monthly rent alone would cost around ...

The promise of cheap or free houses in Japan has dreamers and chancers rushing to some of the country’s more rural hamlets to make chump-change bets on the disused and dilapidated. Quaint farmhouses.

Swede Anton Wormann bought several akiya and renovated them in a Japandi style. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Australians are visiting Japan in record numbers with some falling so hard for the Asian nation that they’re putting down ...

TOKYO -- Houses in Japan are getting smaller, with the average floor space falling to a 30-year low. Total area per house is about 92 square meters, a decline of 3 sq. meters from the peak year of ...

Museums contain artifacts of the past that are both interesting and informative; a great chance to learn. But for a chance to see, and perhaps even experience, Japan’s folk life of the pre-modern ...

The UNESCO World Heritage site of Shirakawa-go in central Japan has held a drill to protect its signature traditional ...