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