Why Are Japanese People Obsessed with Haunted Houses?

What if I told you that your Japanese home might hold a deep dark secret and what if there's a way to find out Today I'm going to be talking about Oshimateru the Japanese website that shows you every death that has occurred in a Japanese property whether it be a hotel a shopping mall or your home and I'm gonna show you what kind of information you can find on this website but before that I want to talk about why this information is so important to Japanese people let's say you're eyeing this coz

y apartment in Tokyo for a price that looks like a bargain wait before you buy it there is one thing you need to check first and that is if there are any unseen roommates yes I'm talking about ghosts because in Japan this isn't just some campfire story it's serious business you see most Japanese people believe in Shintoism and while it's not a religion per se it's more like a deep rooted belief that spirits are everywhere in mountains rivers and even in houses and when something tragic goes down

like a person taking their own life folks believe that the spirit of that person sticks around Shintoism doesn't specify what these spirits are but one thing is certain you do not want to be on their bad side and living in a house with these vengeful spirits is an easy way to get there it's not just a fanatic leak of the Japanese population that believes in these spirits or ghosts it's actually a substantial majority you see according to a survey conducted by the NHK over 80% of people in Japan

responded that they believe fully in ghosts and spirits this is why if somebody dies in a property in a gruesome way like murder or suicide most Japanese people actually believe that their spirits will stay in that property to harm the next tenant either physically or through misfortune these stigmatized properties will often therefore see their value plummets significantly sometimes by as much as 20 to 50% after the neighboring houses So how does Oshimateru fit into all of this well essentiall

y it's a digital compass for navigating this unique aspect of Japan's real estate markets with this website you can check if that dreamy apartment that you're looking at has any let's say dark history you just hop on click around and Bam you know if you are about to rent a place where spirits might be hanging out let me show you how it works so here is Oshimateru or oshimaland.co.jp and this are all the depths in properties all around Japan and then here we can zoom out and let's say Tokyo right

biggest place in Japan so there you can see all the deaths and properties around Tokyo and if we zoom in we get into more details where every fire icon represents an amount of des in that area so let's zoom into Shibuya here so here you can see Shibuya 109 there and then we can zoom in even more to get into specific properties so let's seem inside more here and then let's check around and property like this one for example and so here you can see the address where the death occurred the reason

for the death and then here is a picture of the apartment where the falling happened and then here you can see a comment with more detail on the death that has occurred so let's Mark the text here then press translate and now we can read the actual comment I'm using Safari's translate feature here so it might be some grammatical error but I'll try to read it as faithfully as I can on the 15th it was found that the eldest son 23 of actor Masao Kusakari 62 fell from an apartment in Shibuya Ward To

kyo and died on the night of the fourteenth according to officials the eldest son was staying at a private office on the 7th floor of the same apartment from the circumstances it seems that he fell by mistake according to the fire department which in Japan is 119 it was reported around 8 26 PM on the 14th that a person collapsed on the street the eldest son was transported to a hospital in Tokyo by ambulance but his death was confirmed later according to officials when the eldest son was lying o

n the street he was holding a part of a railing on the veranda by the window from the fall situation report he opened a window without a fence and sat by it and when he fell it seemed that he tried to hold on to a part of the railing of the veranda according to the report at that time it was only the eldest son in the office and the report also states that he sometimes stayed in the office and engaged in music and painting production activities according to Masao Kuzakari his eldest son on that

day was doing production activities a live commentary was conducted at the Shibuya Police station but the station said it was not a case and saw it as an accident and the people concerned also denied the possibility of suicide there are tons of detail depictions like this of properties all over Japan and as you can see there are hundreds of thousands of properties all over Japan with stories like this and now you know why oshimatada is so important for people who live here who want to live here

or even who just wanna invest here it's not about real estate it's like a peak into Japan's soul and a real blend of how the modern world in Japan clashes with timeless beliefs it shows you not just the walls and windows but the stories and secrets they hold and I find that quite intriguing and part of the beauty of living in Japan so what do you think would you live in one of these stigmatized properties probably for a huge discount or would you steer clear tell me in the comments section and l

et's talk about it until then if you like these kind of videos please like and subscribe this one cause it really motivates me to make more and other than that I just want to say happy house hunting and sayonara