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I bought a cheap home in Japan sight unseen. The $26,000 I spent is a better investment than a vacation home in the US.

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We started a website to help foreigners buy cheap homes in Japan. We've bought 6 homes ourselves, but it's not the money-maker you'd expect.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Take Kurosawa: Our original plan was to make a website to help people search for homes in Japan. But people would start messaging ...
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How to buy a home in Japan as a foreigner

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Japan has millions of cheap abandoned homes. Here's what to know before you buy one.

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We started a website to help foreigners buy cheap homes in Japan. We've bought 6 homes ourselves, but it's not the money-maker you'd expect

This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with Take Kurosawa, 35, and Joey Stockermans, 37, two North Americans who started AkiyaMart, a website designed to help foreigners buy homes in Japan.