Over 13% of the homes in Japan are abandoned

Meanwhile the number of people passing away last year set a post-war record. According to the latest government statistics, the number of abandoned homes in Japan reached a record high of 8.5 million as of Oct. 1, 2018, up by 260,000 from five years earlier. Japan’s education ministry, meanwhile, has struggled with how to repurpose vacant school buildings.

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