Seeing vacant buildings and houses in disrepair in Japan is becoming more commonplace with the aging and decline of the country's population.The phenomenon is being acutely felt in some small and midsize regional cities struggling to cope with a continuous outflow of population. One of them is Kushiro, a fishing port city located on the Pacific Ocean coast of the northern main island of Hokkaido.With commercial facilities switching to suburban areas, the area around JR Kushiro Station has lost much of its vitality, with many buildings abandoned and left to go to seed due to a lack of funds …READ FULL ARTICLE
