Kyoko Watanabe moved to Miyagi Prefecture to help with disaster relief efforts following 3/11. She ended up building a ...

Tucked away in Japan’s countryside, millions of abandoned homes – known as akiya – sit empty, waiting for a second life. With ...

One person it did not dawn on recently is Alex Kerr, an author and Japanologist originally from Maryland, who became an akiya owner in 1973 when he acquired an abandoned country house (known as a ...

The Government of Saskatchewan is developing a pilot framework it anticipates will be available to participating ...

We love spending time at our firepit with neighbors," she said. Their transformation of the abandoned house into a warm and welcoming home is a testament to their dedication—and proof that even ...

PHOTOS show inside an eerie abandoned house deep in the ... antique car collector sits deep in the woods of rural Georgia. “According to property records, the home dates to the early 20th ...

She revealed that it was cheaper than a deposit for a house in nearby Brisbane. An abandoned church bought ... church that was in my hometown in country NSW [New South Wales].