These abandoned houses have created "ghost ... Notably, the prefectures that are home to Japan's three biggest cities (Tokyo, Yokohama, and Osaka) each saw a population increase in this same ...

While other countries have ghost towns, Japan has a whole ghost island! Hashima Island is located nine miles off the coast of Nagasaki. The island was developed by the Mitsubishi company in the ...

However, it was during the pandemic that the couple first learned about akiya, or abandoned houses, in Japan. Due to the shrinking population and internal migration toward cities, there are ...

Dreamland is a theme park located in Nara, Japan which opened in 1961 ... giving off the eerie feeling of being in a ghost town. Dreamland was destroyed in 2016 and is now in the process of ...

Japan's Fukushima, the site of one of the world ... the place is safe for occupation and is no longer a ghost town.