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"There are hundreds of traditional Japanese countryside houses offering amazing locations, space, and architecture that are just going to waste right now." Mills sees this as an unmissable chance ...

“Language. I’d taken Japanese in college, but I did not really speak it. That has steadily improved—now I like to say I’m renovating a house entirely in Japanese—but I’m learning how ...

Every winter Mount Rokko adds a snow park to its many leisure facilities. A short train ride and cable car from downtown Kobe ...

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“During that PhD program, I traveled a lot around the Japanese countryside,” he says, “You can tell how much difficulty (it) is having with the labor shortage. You see many abandoned houses ...

"There are hundreds of traditional Japanese countryside houses offering amazing locations, space, and architecture that are just going to waste right now. "This is the perfect opportunity to snap ...