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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.

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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.