Akiya & the Vanishing Village

Nine million empty homes and towns down to their last resident — the geography of a country shrinking in real time.

Playlist by @aging_japan_mirror

21 tracks, shared on Audicious.

  1. Why are there millions of empty houses in Japan? - The Global Story podcast, BBC World Service — BBC World Service
  2. Why Does Japan Have 9,000,000 Abandoned Homes? — Yes Theory
  3. Japan's Country Towns Were Dying, Then COVID Happened — VICE Asia
  4. Population of One: Living Alone in an Abandoned Ghost Town — VICE
  5. What a Small Town in Japan is Like — Life Where I'm From
  6. Visiting the Japanese City That Lost 95% of its Population — Brandon Mosconi
  7. 2 Days in Japan's Dying Town with So Many Abandoned Houses | Hiwasa — travelgeek
  8. Japan’s Abandoned Houses: Crisis or Expat Dream? | Full Episode | SBS Dateline — SBS Dateline
  9. Japan Has 9 Million Empty Homes - So Why Are They Giving Them Away for Free? — Land of Value - World Documentary
  10. Japan’s 9 Million (And Growing) Abandoned Homes: The 'Akiya' Phenomenon | CNA Correspondent — CNA Insider
  11. Why Was This Japanese Village Abandoned? — Tokyo Lens
  12. This Japanese Town Replaced Humans With Scarecrows — Tokyo Lens
  13. The Japanese Village Where Scarecrows replaced People — Bongani’s Japan Discoveries
  14. Exploring Japan's Rural Villages (Leaving the Abandoned School) — Tokyo Lens Explore
  15. I Met the Last Resident of a Vanishing Japanese Village — Nini Sun
  16. 【Living Alone in the Countryside】A Day in the Life of 93 y/o Grandma Kinoe | Japanese Countryside — Japanese Grandma Kinoe
  17. Aging population leaves 9 million houses empty in Japan — Al Jazeera English
  18. Japan's empty houses: How rural towns are trying to solve the 'akiya' problem — CNA
  19. Akiya Crisis in Rural Japan: How a Small Town Unites Locals & Newcomers to Battle Depopulation — Good Old Houses Japan
  20. Abandoned Houses for Homeless? Japan's Housing Paradox — Sakura stories
  21. How This Japanese Village Keeps its Mountain Traditions Alive (with less than 500 people) — maigomika