Why are there millions of empty houses in Japan? - The Global Story podcast, BBC World Service

Transcript

Hello, I'm Lucy Hockings. From the BBC  World Service, this is The Global Story. In Japan, the number of abandoned homes is at an  all-time high. Nine million properties sit empty, blighting city streets and turning some  rural communities into ghost towns. So what do these crumbling houses say about  Japan's existential crisis and its aging, shrin... Read More