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Did you know that 13,6% of all buildings in Japan are empty, according to the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications? I do now - I was shocked to find empty place after empty place, as I am from a country that has a dire shortage of housing (Netherlands). I was intrigued and obsessively started to photograph everything I encountered while traveling from Hokkaido to Hiroshima.

It took me a while but these photos and this adventure is being printed into a book at the moment. For more info click here. 

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Five Images Of A Very Abandoned Japan (Project Title: The Lost World)

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D
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4 years ago

You can almost see the ghosts

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    *Displayname*=idk
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    4 years ago

    I want some of the screens In one room of my future house. Like a Japanese themed room.(because that is where I want to visit and explore)

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    *Displayname*=idk
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    4 years ago

    I always wonder the backstory of what could have happened. What about yall?

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    O5-1
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    4 years ago

    Me to

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    JM
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    4 years ago

    I am thinking about all the life lived in this room.

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    JM
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    4 years ago

    again thinking about the people who used to be here - what were their stories?

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    Nspøuf ツ
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    4 years ago

    The ring

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    *Displayname*=idk
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    4 years ago

    I'm gonna guess a theater.

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    GlassHalfWay
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    4 years ago

    So sad...no more looking thru the isles of a grocery store

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    Mark Karol-Chik
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    4 years ago

    This is very intriguing.

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    Betta Fish
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    4 years ago

    Is that a mirror!?!?!? Or am I just going crazy!?!?!?!?!

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    KC Lancaster
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    4 years ago

    So odd "scrappers" haven't come by to recycle the metal parts on the outside of the buildings. I'm just thinking that as someone who's into recycling. I believe the Japanese to be very much into that as well...?

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    Is Be
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    4 years ago

    Cool vintage chairs.

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    *Displayname*=idk
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    4 years ago

    Is that a tank, or am I just blind...

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    Shiroiko
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    4 years ago

    I guess this meeting wasn't a success...

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    GlassHalfWay
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    4 years ago

    I wonder what the last moments of that camera captured.

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    Shyla Clay
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    4 years ago

    It would be neat to restore. Well, it would be neat for someone else to restore.

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    GlassHalfWay
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    4 years ago

    Oh deer...

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    Peej Maybe
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    4 years ago

    Aw man, my kid would go nuts in there nabbing all the discarded anime!

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    JM
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    4 years ago

    who was here and where did they go?

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    Shyla Clay
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    4 years ago

    I don't know what it is, but a cat would love that thing.

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    Shyla Clay
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    4 years ago

    The blue machine must have eaten the person on the ladder.

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