Akiya data studies
Original research from Engawa's government-sourced akiya corpus: natural disaster risk mapped across the catalogue, a municipality subsidy league table, and a listing-freshness audit. Every number is reproducible from our open data, with the method and sources on each page. Free to cite.
We Mapped Natural Disaster Risk for 549 Abandoned Japanese Homes
We ran 549 catalogued akiya through official government flood, landslide, tsunami, and earthquake data. Most are safe on paper, but the risk is not priced in the way buyers expect.
Read the studyWhich Japanese Towns Pay the Most to Renovate an Akiya
We matched 130 renovation and relocation subsidy programmes across 43 Japanese municipalities. Here is the league table of which towns pay the most to fix up an empty home, with amounts and source links.
Read the studyWe Checked Which Akiya Listings Are Still Actually for Sale
Akiya listings are notorious for going stale. We audited our own catalogue against the source pages and found that 12.2% of homes are no longer straightforwardly for sale. Here are the numbers.
Read the studyHow we build and verify this data: read our methodology.