Set in a quiet neighbourhood in Osaka prefecture, the newly built three storey F-House is a compact, timber home for a family ...

Erik Buhrow dreams of retiring in Japan. Until then, he's renting out the akiya, or abandoned home, to other Americans who ...

Minimalistic Hovering Cabin appears to be floating. The use of natural materials and raised platform minimizes a threat to ...

As Japan’s population ages, a record-breaking number of houses across the country now sit vacant, with many showing unlit windows, walls covered ... to 13.8 percent. By prefecture, the vacancy ...

Hannah Kirshner owns Japanese Kominka houses in Yamanaka, Ishikawa Prefecture. While she lived in a rented apartment for the first few years, an empty old house nearby caught her eye. It took ...