Moeka Iida
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193 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 5d ago
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Matsubara is a comedian in Japan.
Matsubara pulls out his phone and shows me photos of what the room looked like before he moved in.
There was an old lady living alone and she was quite isolated and she was a hoarder.
She passed away and then went unnoticed for days.
By the time she was found, her body was lying there, buried under mountains of rubbish.
For over a decade, Matsubara has lived in houses like this where people have died in tragic or brutal ways.
In one house, a man killed his brother.
In another, a woman hanged herself.
And even the natural deaths are quite grim.
One man died alone and went unnoticed for two years.
As a comedian, he's written memoirs about his experiences, which have also inspired films.
These homes are known as jikobukken in Japanese, or incident properties.
Many Japanese people recoil at the thought of living in one.
But now because of rising living costs and housing costs, these properties are looking less unappealing to some tenants.
So in Japan, ancestral worship is a big part of traditional culture.
So when someone passes away, there are all these Buddhist rituals that take place to mourn.
So any form of death that deviates from the norm, like a murder or a suicide, or when someone goes unmourned, like the lady who used to live in the house that I visited, it's seen as a source of bad luck.
It's seen in a very negative way.
And a lot of tenants are reluctant to live in these houses.
So that's why these houses lose value.
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