Posted on 08/13/2018 11:41:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin
For such a modern and technologically advanced nation, the Japanese can be extremely superstitious, and this can even be seen in mega cities like Tokyo. One area where this superstition comes to the fore is in choosing a place to live, and one type of residence that is typically shunned are what are known as “stigmatized properties,” or jiko bukken in Japanese, which are places that have some association with death and suffering.
Such apartments or homes come in several levels of stigmatization. For instance, if a place is located next to a cemetery this is seen as mildly stigmatized, or a bit more so if one can actually see the grave stones from the window. Higher up the totem pole are apartments or homes where there has been a death on the premises, such as a suicide, the death of a lone elderly tenant, called “a lonely death,” or worse yet, a violent murder or deadly accident. Such places are incredibly difficult to rent out, and it is difficult for real estate companies to cover up such things, as Japanese law requires that landlords tell potential buyers or renters of any defects, violent incidents, or deaths that have happened there.
Get a house or flat where there has been a violent death and it can be almost impossible to find a taker, as the Japanese believe that the very likely restless and even vengeful ghost will almost certainly linger there. Because of this aversion to these haunted stigmatized locations, landlords are forced to drop the rent or prices of such homes considerably, with cuts of 30% to 50% or even more, depending on the severity of the place’s dark past and the level of violence involved in the deaths. Murders are the worst.....
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I live in one that has a young girl with long black hair walking around,should i be concerned?
Sounds like cheap digs in Tokyo.
“The Grudge” (movie) comes to mind.
A good share of her neighbors are non-Japanese who love the relative bargain (or, more appropriately, whose companies and embassies which pay the rents do) plus the Japanese who aren't bothered by the ghost factor. But it still isn't exactly cheap.
I actually translated and subtitled a slew of movies from Japanese to English for a Roku channel and all of them had to do with Jiko Bukken or haunted properties. Japanese are really scared of them and are always, ALWAYS suspicious if a price seems too low. If it’s really low, there’s a good chance someone committed suicide there.
My buddy bought a huge house in rural Miyazaki which was a jiko bukken and in a rural location. It’s literally 5 minutes walk from a startlingly beautiful beach and over 2,000 square feet with a three car garage and two dwellings outside that each are about 1,000 square feet.
Amazing place.
>>If it’s really low, there’s a good chance someone committed suicide there.<<
Works for me. Concrete proof of an afterlife, in the guise of ghosts or whatever, would be of great interest to me.
I would be like Bart Simpson back when the “Treehouse of Terror” shows were actually funny and not just gory — “make the walls bleed again” “NO!” “make the walls bleed again” “NOOO!!!!”
I’d be more worried about Tokyo Fukushima radiation poisoning rather than ‘ghosts’.
Ping.
Depends...did she just crawl out of your television?
Just remember to tip The Wood Guy if your haunted apartment has a fireplace.
I once rented a garage apartment that overlooked an historic Texas cemetery. Some of the founding fathers of the Texas Republic were buried there. My landlady who occupied the nearby house worked nights, slept days. Man, was that a peaceful, noise free existence.
A family we knew got a bargain on a fairly decent house because the owner had one stipulation-- one certain room was to remain locked and never opened. Rumors abounded that said room was once the site of mayhem, but it turned out that the owner, quite elderly, simply used it to store belongings he wasn't ready to part with when he moved into an assisted living arrangement.
Chances are my daughter has seen some of them or knows about them. She has a large collection of Japanese animation.
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