If you’re looking to get yourself a free abandoned house in Japan don’t panic, there’s plenty to go around.
Often, the cost of knocking down a decaying old house is more than the resale value of the land on which it stands. For the heirs, it is cheaper just to leave the old place untended than to deal with all the bother. But it is harder to fathom why witch houses have proliferated in Japan’s richest cities.
Timestamps:
0:00 Japan’s “Witch Buildings”
1:15 Japan’s Demographic Crisis
4:42 Why The Witch Homes
5:25 Property Investment
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3:54 My guy. How are you gonna repopulate if you aren't heteronormative? Magic?
Who wants to go Yokai hunting?
It should be noted that the population issue is exactly the same in the west, it is just being hidden by immigration.
This is essentially the situation that is being faced by the native population and immigration not only cause various and deep social issues but is also a bandaid solution as immigrants adopt society wide fertility rates within a few generations even when they integrate into little else.
Oh yeah and 50% of the 55% decrease in male wages is going to be women entering the workforce and deflating wages. Something the government has encouraged in order to spark GDP growth but obviously worsens the on the ground causes of the situation.
Also more gay people is about the last solution to a birth rate problem that one could logically come up with, the women you quoted should be fired.
I don`t know why but so many topics about Japan are just fascinating to me. Thanks for the video.
If I would had the money, I would buy them up and make family orientate vacation homes
Wait… so Jennifer Roberson thinks that the reason why Japanese birth rates are going down is that the Japanese are too straight? That doesn't make any sense.
I wonder how legal squatting is
I wish the us had a surplus of homes.Well…like Japan
Best way to increase population growth is POVERTY! People with vastly less expectations in life have no problem popping out children, as demonstrated in every poor country, ever. As Japan economically collapses, there will be a resurgence in child births. The only question is, who's going to own the land at that point? If it falls into the hands of the rich, those properties needed new families will be locked away from them. They'll have the same shameful issue as the US, where rich landlords hold dominion over the poor, unable to find a places to buy of their own.
Interesting topic but your delivery/writing could do with a bit of improvement. Sounded a bit too much like you were reading facts off a wiki page at times.
It’s not wrong on an individual basis to not have kids, but if we in the West want to keep our countries from falling in the same trap as Japan we have to keep some traditional values alive. Without any motivation to meet a spouse, start a family, or even be a part of a real-life community, people are tempted to use the internet to satisfy these basic urges, which never works.