The Old Houses Japan Podcast

Before the properties, the grants, and the renovation budgets, who actually built Old Houses Japan, and why?

Host David sits down with his co-founder and wife Victoria to tell the whole story. A teenager told no by her mom who spent six years making Japan happen anyway. A guy who went from Yu-Gi-Oh cards to the banking world before finding what he was actually meant to be doing. A proposal at the Fushimi Inari gates when the crowd cleared and the camera was already in her hand. Two years finding the right business idea, eight months of visa applications, and a celebration with In-N-Out burger in a dark Los Angeles bedroom. Three years to close their first property in Kyoto. And a moment in the quiet Japanese countryside that made all of it make sense.

This is the episode before the episodes. Personal, honest, and the clearest explanation of why OHJ exists and why it's built the way it is.

Japan has nine million empty homes. Most of them are hidden in plain sight — on rural hillsides, at the edge of rice fields, in villages that emptied out a generation ago. Some of them are extraordinary. Century-old farmhouses with hand-cut timber frames, clay tile roofs, and engawa verandas that wrap the whole south side.

And a lot of them cost less than a secondhand car.

Old Houses Japan is the show that tells you what's actually possible — the buying process, the renovation realities, the government grants most foreigners have never heard of, and the people already doing it. Hosted by David and Victoria, who built the platform because the information didn't exist in English and they were tired of hitting that wall.

New episodes every Tuesday. Follow now so you don't miss episode one.

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