Meet the Japanese Realtor Who Sells Murder Houses | ASIAN BOSS
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Okuma Akira, a real estate agent in Tokyo, takes selling property to a whole different level. He and his company make it their goal to sell real estate that the Japanese call “jiko bukken,” or “stigmatized property.” Namely, these homes had owners whose residency there have ended in suicide or murder, or whose deaths weren’t discovered until much later because these residents lived alone. We followed Akira to one such property and asked him about this niche housing market.
Special thanks to Okuma Akira for sharing his story with us.
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At the end of the video, he says he's not comfortable with the houses being called haunted since it breaks his heart.
What does this video call them? MURDER houses. Nice.
Slaughterhouse!
You sir are funny!
Clickbait
This video is frm asianboss not the japanese guy himself. What he share are his thoughts but whats eventually posted or called is not his call. So obviously the title might differ.
stigmatized property, that is how they addressed it.
This guy has that look. The look you see on people who've seen the worst and most tragic aspects of humanity. I hope he takes care of himself and keeps his mind grounded.
He probably values life more than most others.
SELLING USED UNDIES IS A BETTER JOB.
@Gabriel Bautista I'd more so say Mexican drug cartels have DONE the worst, but that's just me. I agree about the empathy that this man has though.
He kinda reminds me of this guy who patrols the suicide forest in Japan who was in a Vice documentary.
Lala The only difference is that dude saves life’s.
Out of respect for this man, change the title of your video.
What do you mean?
@@jenskefas5139 oh I see. Thanks spongebob
Yeah what he said at the end of the video he doesn't like such connotations
yes i agree but if the word "murder houses" wasn't in the title, less people would click on the video
it got lost in translation, dont hang on to every single word, is translate problem
I love the host because she always gets super real and asks the questions no one is really ever willing to ask. This is very rare, especially in Japanese people to be so open minded I love it.
Roxanne Dare exactly!! I really love herrr
This is the type of work ASIAN BOSS does. I'm grateful that they show a different side of Asia we never get to see. I like Japan and I hope to travel to Japan someday.
@@samuelrobinson1150 You won't regret your trip. Take a longer trip if you can, try not to make it packed so you can really absorb Japan
Kyron Baxter i went in december and i really want to go back. it was such an amazing experience and i truly miss it 😔
I love the host even if she doesnt ask any question 😁
You can see how he struggled internally when Hiroko asked him where the corpse was found....."right where you're standing" xD
I'd run if i was her though 😂 she's pretty brave to still be able to film there
I thought that was hilarious.
She go Oof
Not that I'm disrespect about it, but it's pretty comedic coincident.🤣
The guy also worry Hiroko gonna jump into him, he's skinny after all and Hiroko's size ... 🤣
Now I'm I make 2 insensitive joke.😵 Sorry Hiroko.
drunkdriver jeez lol
He has a big heart to take good care of broken-hearted people he doesn’t know.
Its a job he took on when the murder car buisness did not go so well.
@@kevingonzalez3673 what?
@@jul2447 Yeah. He used to work in a used murder car lot. Cars were people died but it did not do too well. He moved on to homes.
@@kevingonzalez3673 Dayum, this man is unique.
Kevin Gonzalez judge
Respect for this man. He doesn't use the deaths as gimik. He sincerely care and respect both the dead and the living.
hmm
This cameraman has more balls than all of us combined going in alone at 5:17
Yesssss
Why? It's just an empty house that happens to smell really bad, and maybe needs just a tad more cleaning and a LOT of airing out. Lol! 🤢🤢😷😷
Is it a cameraman tho?
@@topp4362 if it was a drone would it be shaky..
There are manga about people who in the job of clean up the corpse in this kind of house
Oh man, Hiroko is real shook this time
stay shook
I’d feel the same imagining melted corpse flesh on the ground swimming with maggots
4:26 her reaction lol
Lala I’m the one thousandth like!
I hope she gets more professional because its just too much for me it feels fake
I fully respect a man who does a job very few would be willing to do, specially when the people who need his services are likely to be rejected by most other individuals.
And he does it with integrity
I’ve been looking for a tainted property. It’s not that people are rejected elsewhere, it’s that these are way cheaper. A lot of foreigners including me will take a tainted property for a big discount. I don’t want to live in a shoebox for the rest of my life.
I’ve been looking for a tainted property. It’s not that people are rejected elsewhere, it’s that these are way cheaper. A lot of foreigners including me will take a tainted property for a big discount. I don’t want to live in a shoebox for the rest of my life.
I’ve been looking for a tainted property. It’s not that people are rejected elsewhere, it’s that these are way cheaper. A lot of foreigners including me will take a tainted property for a big discount. I don’t want to live in a shoebox for the rest of my life.
I can't believe I laughed when I read the title
He starts talking casually about the scene he saw, probably because he's so used to such terrible images. However, he freezes seeing the interviewer's horrified face and the little sound she lets out. He then takes his time afterwards to explain the scene slowly in parts and give her time to digest. That's a truly strong individual, who's seen it all but has not lost his strong sense of empathy for others. I really admire people like that, who don't let how awful and sad the world is stop them from being kind.
He used to it always so no panic or scary mode to him
Blessed this man for doing the job that not everyone can handle. And the way he respects the family, victims, and places that he doesn’t like the hunted house to be an entertainment stuff is really touching. 🙏🏻😔
I know! It takes a lot of compassion to do this job especially in a society like Japan where just having a job like that makes people want to avoid him. I think it's implied because he works with tragic death, which is the type of death that causes angry ghosts, that people are afraid he has ghosts attached to him. So it takes a lot of courage to take a job that's going to stigmatize you as well for just having it.
The apartment I'm currently staying right now, was belonged to a couple who drugged themselves to death. Been living herefor the past 16 years, not a single supernatural activities happened. As long as your conscience is clear you have nothing to be afraid of.
Do you ever hear a disembodied fart?
@@starishwar2034 ghost and ginies are just farts that slipped out the bottle.
@@kevingonzalez3673 the only fart Iheard was mine.
Maybe the ghosts of the couple that died in your apartment are just too lazy to make any noise and they just sit there watching you.
Means you guys are quite balanced emotionally. Usually a room with a case like that, will leave negative energy passed by the guys who died, rather than the ghost itself. Like those who live in a murder house, tend to be a murderer too as the house contains so much "anger" energy. Anyway, all the best!
I love how he slowly described the melted corpse to Hiroko to let her fully sink in that information and to not be suddenly overwhelmed. I appreciate that about him so much. This was such a wholesome interview.
When?
@@najibahtahir9245 I believe it's around 4:17
@@chimichamcham thanks
Well it still scares me because you can visualize it clearly...
I feel like that made it that much more disturbing. He tried to be rather tactful about it but it just sounded wrong tbf, might be just me.
The lesson is: don't live completely alone,okay? Talk to other people, whoever it is
I know a Japanese couple who ended their lives holding hands on their bed with plastic covered on their faces. Financial problems and unemployment were the cause.
@@helloworld2784 oh my god, That's sad and so scary
_LATOYA_116 u know sometimes talking to yourself does work it kinda lessen the pain rather than keep it to your head. Just pretend that the person you’re seeing in the Mirror is somebody else and should be fine
Rafaella are u ok ?
mula I think both of them might need some help and support..
As a mortician, I have so much respect for this man who is selling stigmatized houses. Everyone does get creeped out or scared whenever you have a job that involves the dead, but the thing is, people often don't know how sad it can be. I hope Okuma-san is living a good and healthy life, the mental stress of having to hear about so many deaths can also be bad for you.
I love this video so much btw! I hope to one day be able to meet him if my work ever takes me to Japan!
Embalsamadora?
hiroko is probably my fav asian boss host. love the way she listens and interacts with them. she seems really genuine and isn't awkward at all.
She makn easy money. Why would she jam these peps up?
@@kevingonzalez3673 she didn't even say anything bad lol chill
@@pjmstarry1326 Dude I always chilln. I live in Alaska foo.
@@kevingonzalez3673 i am Not a dude
She's my favorite too. Seems relaxed with whomever she speaks to and asks good questions that don't come off as rude or anything.
Hiroko always gets the interesting people
it's Hiroko actually..
Tokki Jangnim oops
That means Japan is very interesting...
Because japan
DevilTrigger she's cute but Not smoking hot
well everyone has a different taste i guess ....
Seeing these homes bought and lived by new people that creates new and better memories for the place, can mean that he's actually doing good for society
he's overall a business man who found a niche and who also respects the dead. For him this is firstly a business. He buys at a cheap price houses/apartments, invests a part in renovation and cleaning and finally he can sell with a good margin that house. And indeed i liked how he put the MC at her place regarding the hunting stuff. Respect for him.
They can make an anime based on this.
Mob pycho 100
I wanna see an anime about this. Genius
The manga Route End is kind of similar.
The manga Death Sweeper is about a cleaning service which deals with cleaning houses like shown here. It's usually about suicide.
@@gino6001 so there is one?
That was extremely enriching. I am guilty for watching "haunted house videos" but what Okuma Akira-san said at 9:59 really caught me off-guard. The respect for the passed ones and empathy for the unfortunate family members is real. This man takes his job seriously and with ethicality.
Would love to see more of these undiscovered side of society. Great work Asian Boss!
Kiba _Owl same and it kinda changed my perspective on things
Yeah- it’s obvious. Very sad
I'm guilty as well in watching those shows but I quickly felt the same way as Akira-san did after awhile. It's so incredibly disrespectful to use the suffering of another human being's spirit for entertainment. I hate how often ghost hunters barge in and try coaxing any spirit out as if it were a pet. There's a reason why ghosts are best left alone. They suffered enough cruelty in their lives so the least we can do is respect their passing and personal space.
Yes, completely agree. This was a great video.
I used to be a big fan of haunted house shows in general until I had the realization that not only were the purported ghosts real people with often tragic stories, but that the people who call "investigators" in to look at private homes are often genuinely afraid and in need of help-often on a more personal level. And while I think in some cases, getting a "psychic" in to give some solid closure/direction can be therapeutic for a family, I agree with the man when he says some hosts just make entertainment out of these things to the detriment of others- living and dead. Now on the rare occasions I watch these shows, I lean more toward the skeptic/debunker types that mainly investigate historical institutions as opposed to private family homes. I'm usually in it for the stories and historical background anyway, not the hunt itself. Honestly, I think grief (fresh grief in particular,) illness and domestic issues are things that are best handled by family and trusted professionals, not poked fun at by random Tv/TH-cam personalities for the spooks.
The sudden piano playing scared the hell out of me...
Yeah and it was pretty louder than usual
I am not alone at night witch stay with me I try to exorcism she become weak but don't leave my house
Oh okay, good. I'm not crazy then
NOMOlonelyNOMOhappy same
I thought I got adsense from the videos and searching where is it
So that's why many Japanese choose to suicide on Aokigahara forest. They did not suicide at home to prevent the decrease price of property, so their living family can sold it without discount.
@Jon Goat Wow even in suicide Japanese do politely.
@Jon Goat A lot of people jump in front of trains in Japan as a method, it's no longer considered an inconvenience so much as it's the norm and that's probably why. A lot of people use trains in their daily life in Japan too, the UK also has a similar problem.
@Jon Goat 212 people a year was the estimate of people all the way back in 2000 when it was at five percent, families of the victims were also fined too in the documentation. Japan and (Tokyo especially) don't give out the estimated numbers of people anymore because they believe it will attract more people just like suicide forest. However people travelling by train say switching tracks because of accidents is a common occurrence.
is that the suicide forest from logan pauls video?
Mr. Apriza Yutama i’m going to hell for chuckling at this.
At first I was also kind of scared but really the man is cool asf. He's so professional yet understanding and kind at the same time.
Hiroko is so respectful to everyone, no matter how different or weird they are.
yes she's so kind hearted and down to earth
Yeah and she's hot af
Except in this case the guy isn't weird at all. He knows what he is doing and he is doing a good job at it.
This guy isn’t that weird tho?
Mighty Boosh weeaoo Japanese apologism is weird af. Grow up and quit your idealization of a foreign culture
my friend lived in a supposedly haunted apartment (the previous owner died in his sleep) in Japan before, because the rental price is so much cheaper and it's in central Tokyo (roughly 300 USD per month when others in the same area could reach at least 600 USD) and it was just 5 minutes walk from the University where she was studying. when she was asking the University to become her guardian for the rent contract (she's a foreign student with Japanese education ministry scholarship so she could utilize the facility) the staffs were like "oh please don't rent that place, it could be haunted and dangerous for you!". in the end she still did and lived there for 4 years without having any slightest supernatural issue... i think no matter what happens in a house before it's all about our mind, and how we treat the house. if we take care and keep it clean it won't bring negative energy..
600 USD for an apartment in Tokyo? No way!
i wonder why they consider it haunted when the owner died a natural death?
600 is still okay compared to Germany 😂😂 and don't even think of Paris and the UK
@@kierudesu I wonder why too, mostly haunted house, mansion or anything they called haunted caused mostly people who lived there died because of suicide or murder or slaughtered not a natural death.
Yeah but it wasn't a brutal death. It doesn't count.
The devil works hard but Hiroko from Asian Boss works harder.
6:53 I love how she asked it RIGHT at the exact spot
Realtor: “Two people were murdered in this house. “
Consumer: “we should get g-“
Realtor: “but check out this PATEO”
Neil the ass titan Akward indeed...
and look at those high ceilings!
@@Birdy_Birb I'm dying
These large windows provide excellent light during the day, cutting down on electricity costs.
@@marklalonde4713 looks like the realtor found another place to clean!
People treat these houses like it's dirt. These people who died were living beings once, I feel sorry for those who died.
Everyone should feel this way
Doesn't mean that you would choose to live in a house where a person died.
You may not believe in ghosts, but that doesn't mean that it won't affect you mentally. The more you know about the house the more bothered you will be.
The people who believe in ghosts will be even more bothered than others about the stories, and will start connecting different health issues to the house. You might be surprised but if you have a negative mindset and you believe that something is affecting your health, your health will deteriorate. That's why a lot of people really cannot live in these sorts of houses.
KoinZell then why my friend sell back the house because she keep telling that something living with her in her house? Until one day she asked neighbour that the house was a murder house. How could she can mentally disturb even before she knew the house was haunted?
@@bepopxxx Mostly every house over 50 years of age can be considered a murder house or a house that someone died in. These negative feelings are just superstition and that's what's really causes that unease. Instead of thinking of the bad things that happened in older homes, think about the great and peaceful times the deceased may have had in them.
@@bepopxxx So what? People make attributions after the fact all the time. There could've been a bird or rodent in the walls. Nothing to do with a haunting at all.
Okuma san : "melted flesh and fallen hair follicies.."
Hiroko san : "........................." 😶
her face .... OMG
As a special reminder: a lot of people accidentally overdosed on combinations of drugs and alcohol. A lot of them didn’t mean to kill themselves. They tried to fix themselves but failed.
"Where did he do it"
"RIGHT WHERE YOU'RE STANDING"
AAAAA
I was scrolling down looking for this comment and I found it!
I knew that would be the answer lol
Can't make better TV than that 😂😂
Why is it always where you stand tho 😂😂😂😂
Was not a huge fan of the loud music at around 7:45, but very interesting video nonetheless
I'm pretty sure the loud music was so that TH-cam doesn't strike the video or remove it for them talking about death or suicide or a touchy topic. Because yotube can pick up words and such.
@@daviddiaz778 Nah, they'll been talking about these topics the entire video, no point for them just to try to 'censor' that part of the video
meowmaple I think it’s also just certain combination of words together. I heard somewhere that a video got demonetised for mentioning the word child.
It was because they were talking and pointing out the exact spot someone died. The loud music prevents TH-cam’s bots from flagging the video due to that scene.
feel like the ghost is coming and make the vol up....T_T
7:35
"... that's how many people d- *LOUD PIANO EARMURDER THAT GOES EVEN LOUDER AND LOUDER*
I almost spit out my water. So accurate hahahahh
Finally, I found someone who said this xD
Haha, I'm gonna have nightmares after that. Thank you Asian Boss.
I think it may have been an editing error
@@boldanabrasevic3020 I think it was just right. It's a good touch.
*Always* remember, your mental health is more important than anything else. 🙏🏽❤️🌹
This man does a very important job and he seems sensitive to the family or person who passed. Everyone dies somewhere. I feel that Mr. Akira Okuma should be respected for doing a difficult job. Hats off to you and may all your sales be swift and high priced.
The Asian inside me is hears "50% cheaper" and be like "Bargain, I'll take it".
My ears perked up when he said that and my mind was already making plans on finding out which home and where it was for me to move in! 😂😂
Phillip Leong this is how the ring happens
@@PastaMasta123 i will ask the ring ghost to pay rent if she wants to live in my house
I'm not asian but same! Lol
a Bunnie agreed, she should pay the rent
He must have sold a lot of houses from Beika city where Conan lives, tons of murder happened there
😂
True
Lol, you're right!
Looool best comment here :v
Yoon Detective Conan? The anime?
7:22 He almost went to demonstrate EXACTLY how the previous owner committed suicide but ooops wait he thought otherwise.
When the music started to play I thought I had my Spotify open or something LMFAO 😂
Give me the go signal and i will start laughing
wth same
The saaaaaaamee here, girl.
How do you guys keep finding interesting stories I never knew would be so fascinating?????
They ask me.
You should check out BEGIN Japanology. I just watched an episode on scissors and it was super interesting. Scissors!
The answer is at the end of the video : stay curious.
Basically keep thinking like a child and let everything surprise and fascinate you. Things will come.
I think cause the world is a lot stranger than you think. Japan especially is wildin
Next episode, "Meet The People Who Clean Up Murder Houses in Japan."
Yeah I just wanted to comment that. More like a cleaner of death scenes.
tbrit7 i think i’ve seen that in youtube.
There's actually already really good video on this about these cleaner uppers in Japan just look for it on youtube
i think there’s already a short documentary on it here on TH-cam called Lonely Death Cleaners, it’s pretty interesting
I watched a video on that already and I could have sworn it was made by asianboss... guess not
I love Hiroko. She's so good at interviewing people and she's so sweet and easy to talk to
WARNING: Turn your volume down before 7:35 , or else it would hurt your ears. You're welcome. :)
thanks 😔
Thanks
Too late
Too late
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Props to him for doing this job
Isn't it ironic how he sells "stigmatized properties " but calls his company "Happy Planning co"?
Well if he named it "Death awaits home planning co" he wouldn't get any business
I imagine that with the lower prices, people who can stomach the home's history will be very happy to find a suitable place to live. It seems like the housing market in Japanese cities is very intense!
@@abdsnomadicescapades7773 or "The corpse has been taken care of, it's okay planning co"
It’s a comfort to the living ones
The name is good for his company . To salle house esaly.
The house is for those who's willing to buy for a cheaper price for me it's a good idea
Instead of living the house emty for years
It takes a whole other level of mental and emotional brave to do this, the fact that he talks so calmly is just amazing especially given the history of these places he's showing.
I wish the best for this guy, this video really showed how much respect he has for the families and the idea of the deceased.
For me the sad part is that a person had died and that no one has checked on them for a long time that the corpse has started to decompose.
Now I appreciate my community and religion more.
Well, there’s a few reasons for that. 1: they’re far from their family and maybe the parents they think their child is busy.
2: the family might not care.
3: their neighbors don’t want to get involved, especially if you live in a city, it’s only when the neighbors start to smell the rotting corpse.
Same
It weird people get paranoid about recent death, but they never wondered a long time ago where war began, there might be human burried under the house or animal dead something like that
I think that every time someone says they are scared of cemeteries or houses where people died. Like what I have learned from history class is that earth is a bit cementery and we live and walk on them.
I think the biggest thing for me is just the thought that someone was just living there just weeks ago and a corpse could have been rotting on my floor...
Yeah but they aren't fresh corpses.
The most humbling moment for me was when a teacher brought my class (only 13 of us) to a war memorial site. It was basically a cemetery for all the soldiers who'd died in our country. We were there in the daytime so it wasn't scary, but it did leave a heavy feeling seeing so many headstones, and in memory more of them were marked "Known unto God" than actually named (meaning the bodies were likely impossible to identify). Human mortality, I think, is the scary thing about subjects surrounding death. Which is why people who've died long ago and were buried aren't scary, but recent deaths still are. The idea that someone has died that close to a time where you'd probably lived a rather average day might be disconcerting.
Yes, no one thinks about that. I mean, in most larger cities you'd probably have several people that died at close to the same place, due to natural causes, war, disease and people are walking over the place of their death every day.
My burning question is what happened to the pet???????
Could have at least let it out on the streets...
if its a cat, that cat would eat the owner out of hunger. theres a few cases of this.
Reminds me to give my cat to a good person if I ever decide to commit suicide haha
you guys do relise that he committed suicide, his own life didn't hold value in his eyes and he decided to end it. a cat life was probably not on the to do list that day.
innocent inno no, dogs eat their dead owners too when they get hungry. And there are a few cases of that too.
I love the interviewer, her questions are so well thought out, it feels like she read my mind
If it's a good deal and they renovate it, I wouldn't care.
yeah right, until you are there alone at midnight and then suddenly woke up at exactly 3:00 AM for unknown reasons, AWOOOO XD
@@ricosuabeh I'm not superstitious.
@@brett8460 Seeing ghost is not called superstitious....
@@nicapika7970 my opinion is that you'd only see ghosts if you believe in them. Your brain is set to view any circumstances as a part of some sort of a supernatural occurrence, even though they could easily be explained by using some common sense
R DG most white people I know don’t believe in ghosts. Even if the ghost straight punched them in the face, they’d go “it was just the wind”. Kinda jealous of that. I’ve def felt weird energies in different houses.
I was not expecting that melted body in a pool of fluids and maggots story
8:30 Only by hearing that, already make my heart hurting this much. Huge respect to this man that take care of unfortune family.
Akira: I'm not comfortable with 'haunted house'
ASIAN BOSS: *puts murder house in title*
oh my god why i'am laughing
They should've put "stigmatized houses" lol
I think Tibetan Lama must exorcism house after people death
@@amethyst5047 then only few person understand and click the video. Its my second time see the thumbnail until i watch it.
It´s sad that the number of this houses has gone up, because it means that many people have taked their own lifes or lived in the loneliness and oblivion
Well there’s no way they’d decrease, they can only go up
@@nil-8026 all I can Imagine is for foreigners Japan is known as fun and lot of interesting things and more modern than any countries like youtube always showed to us alot of fun and interesting things in Japan while we are thinking Japan is the greatest country to live too but this is also showed us there is so many people end up their lives in loneliness or depression or living under pressure some kind of that and so this make me feel like hell that could happened?
Its like when you got a neighbor and they show you about how enjoy and fun their lives is but in the end the whole families end up died from suicide.
I'm an European realtor and I can say that some houses that we are meant to sell give us the chills.
Specialty homes in which the owners died and are sold by their families.
What this guy does is not normal, most of us realtors would refuse to sell this kind of property, and in case we did we'd get severe pysicological issues from that
There's something about Japanese houses that really creep me out. I dont know, is it just me???
i dont knw why but yes it gives me the jitters too.
Ever since I saw The Grudge... It gives me that vibe.
Same here ahha
Gotta tell you..... you guys are in the minority here. Out of the over 125 million people in Japan, they don't find any of those aspects that you just mentioned 'creepy'. Me either, but I was born there and spent most of my childhood there. 😆😆😆 But there's a lot of filtered and ambient light in most houses, depending on the architecture..... like rice paper paneled sliding screen panels and the use of natural woods and light colors. But I will have to admit, when done right...... an older traditional style Japanese (especially in a country setting) home can be a really creepy setting for a story filled with 'obake' or 'bakemono'. 👻👻👻
Jon Goat ^^^ and who’s to say they aren’t equally a bit afraid of our own western housing? Especially the ones with older-style architecture and build-the kind you see a lot of in horror movies with old manors and estates/colonial sentiments
In reality, almost everywhere we go in the city have someone died sometime in the past, so who really cares. Especially with how expensive properties are in NY. Living in stigmatized house is better than being homeless.
I was just thinking that too. My mom passed at home from natural causes but we were with her at the time.
Indeed it's unrealistic to expect most houses to be "death free", and unless you want to start demolishing every such house (good luck with that) you'll have to deal with them somehow.
Thank you for making this video! Love the interviewee’s words towards the end of the vid “It pains my heart [that they make entertainment out of people’s death]”
I love that one too because for me, someone might be making fun of them and that caused them to end their lives.
Hiroko's reaction while the realtor is telling a story. Goose bumps! lol
Poor Hiroko *really* regrets getting this assignment.
Basically, he is a Funeral Director (or Mortician) of the Real Estate world. That is not easy and takes a lot of compassion.
7:35 the piano track was way too loud, use a different method to censor your material. Don’t hurt people’s hearing.
Jon Irenicus I was about to say the same thing 😡 that piano track was awkwardly placed and used
@@bouszaye yEa, I'm shocked and confused, "what o.O!? what's wrong? something wrong with my earphone volume??" but it's not, lol
I wonder what they sensored. I don't speak Japanese but it could be something the man said
Yeah, mute it and say on screen that you had to censor sensitive information. I'm lucky I had my volume kinda low and it was still too loud.
i had to pause the video because i thought there was an external source inside my phone playing it lmao
honestly my biggest question 7:50 is why is there loud piano playing? and it is not even of high quailty.
The thought of moving into a stigmatized house with a darker past and making it a new bright home where new life can bloom is actually quite nice.
Life is what you make it 😀
I mean... yeah.. I live in a house where someone died alone and was left for a while before they found him.. it’s taken me a while before I got over the idea of living in a place that acted as someone’s coffin for a while. 😅 Landlords were not required to tell me, but at least I was not the immediate tenet after that man. There are good days and bad days because I don’t know if it was natural death or a suicide. 🙃 I don’t believe in ghosts, but I was creeped out several times after moving in before my neighbors mentioned that a man died here last summer. 😅 Wish me luck for more good days.
@@katrinam6359 any update ?
@@glendjunuslodoli211 Ah, luckily the landlords sold the property and I’m living somewhere else. Weird stuff still happened there from time to time,
but it’s someone else’s problem now. 😂
This man really changed my perspective around "haunted house shows" in just 40 seconds at the end there. They've taken the stories of a deceased loved one and made entertainment out of it when you get down to it. I've just always thought of ghosts as being so far from the actual human being that truthfully it never felt like exploitation of a person.
The woman interviewing this man may need therapy after this interview. LOL I don't think I have ever seen such a genuine reaction to the story.
She wore that mask to not contract TB. She do not want her pad to next on his sales list.
Siapa sini datang lepas tgk kupi kupi go?
I really appreciate the investigative reporting done here. There are always interesting, in-depth conversations had where guests are allowed to tell their stories. Also props to Hiroko, I admire her for pushing for more while still being respectful. It's a hard balance to strike.
Side note how spooky was it that when she asked about the previous owner's death she was standing RIGHT where it happened 😱
Hats off to this gentleman seeing the opportunity in growing stigmatized property industry and turn it into his own benefit by specializing in this field. Btw boy! dont you love Hirokos reactions when she is surprised or shocked?
She say dammmmmm! When she look a old boys bank rolls. She like, he got murder house game.
Well, he’s definitely doing something with his life.
He commits suicide in one of the properties.
Kevin Gonzalez what?
your user
Wtf? Are you mocking him or? :/
road ON Not at all. His job is impressive. I wouldn’t be able to deal with houses/apartments like that due to my superstition.
I wonder how Hiroko would have reacted if when telling his "most shocking story", he finished by saying "and that room is the office we are sitting in now"
Wow!! She actually asked the question where the person hung.right there in that moment and that right same place where that happened.creepy and strange moment.
seeing Hiroko shocked like that... man i really felt that.
"I'm not comfortable when people use the term, 'haunted house,' and *it breaks my heart* "
This kind of story or "tragedy"... should be something we empathize with.
Thank you (again) Asian Boss and Mr.Okuma...
What an honorable man for being so considerate of his work and the people suffering. He seems so compassionate for those who have lost their lives and their families and is very respectful. I wish him well.
I don't know but...
I easily cry when I see old people...
And do you know what it feels that...that feeling that you cant express? That suddenly you feel old remembering your past...that past when you where still young and a feeling suddenly appears...I.. I...just cant express it and it makes me really depressed
And also that feeli g when someone you know dies and you feel really old that you cant believe that she or he actually died
Yea i know what u mean.. I get this feeling too... Finally someone who actually puts the feelings into words. And to add... I feel sad and also get scared too when i start thinking about this
Was the music volume intentional starting around 7:40? I can barely hear the conversation, and the music volume seems to go over the standard level that it starts to break.
Unless this was some sort of meta commentary. :P
Yes, they were pointing out the exact spot someone died and talking about it. That’s a big TH-cam no no!
I wonder why TH-cam's algorithm doesn't just check the subtitles, think it should be easier than relying on speech to text then analysing
You can just read the subtitle 😊
Maybe there are some weird mysterious noises that they cant even tell................
Itha k u scary me dude
Why did Asian Boss put "Murder" houses? Title is pretty misleading. Most houses are either death from passing away or suicide. 🤦
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Because they arent wrong, yes most deaths are by naturally passing away or suicide but that doesnt mean he doesnt sell any murder houses
It takes such a stout heart to willingly go into a work that not only deals with the pain of death and the evidence of suffering on a daily basis, but to also deal with the stigma of the work from the living. I'm so glad this man, and others in his field, do what they do--both for the living and the dead.
Growing up, I lived in 2 houses that had deaths occur in them. At at early age, I was able to see ghosts. The only house I will now stay in is my Sister's house where my Mom died. My Sister has kept the couch my Mom died on, and it doesn't bother me at all to sit on it. But... I'll never move into an apartment or house where someone else passed away in, especially a death by suicide or murder because that's just too much dark energy attached to the place.
I have great respect for this man who takes on these properties and wish him great success.
Hiroko is my my favourite interviewer! On the other hand, I'd never buy a murder house, NEVER. It must be very scary living in one of those.
Penny Proud depend of what happening to the previous owner of house, if it really bad, it will bring negative things to your mind, and might bring you to suicide, i see possessed person out of nowhere before, and it trying do suicide
Pamela Palma if you believe in ghosts,
as long they didnt died in the bathroom its fine for me
Why not? You contribute to murder every time you eat an animal or even a plant. Murder eats.
@@danyalfr97 someone hanged behind, watching u bro, while u washed ur hair 👻👻💀💀
I think it’s super interesting how the host was so shocked that western properties that may be haunted are sometimes sold at a higher value as opposed to the properties in japan where people have passed. That is so wild and really shows the difference in culture! Surely something I never thought about 🧐
Hiroko is doing WORK. She’s not afraid to get to the hard or taboo topics that are raging in Japan. Keep doing what you’re doing!
Im here because of KupiKupiGo mention about Haunted Houses.
Wathching this made me remember the past,my uncle also hung his self at the door knob...it was so heartbreaking,and so scary at the same time.because we always hear the door close so loudly in the middle of the night...
Ysa marie Egan I’m so sorry 😔
Oh my goodness did you see Hirokos expression when he described the dead body’s condition with the fluid and maggots? I thought she would run away she looked so uncomfortable and scared. Poor Hiroko. There are special people who can handle specific extremes in life, such as Hospice workers, doctors, etc, and obviously this guy. I had no idea a realtor would have to be this involved in a deceased body. Anyone a realtor from the USA that could explain any differences between our country and Japan in this area?
Do not forget the janitors. They have to clean up the mess that got left behind. They are the real heros.
Yes it would definitely take a special person to clean up and deal with deceased people. I’m so grateful these people exist, I know I couldn’t do it.
@@twinrcr Look all you would need is a shovel, jumpsuit, facemask. You could start your own business.
Nope, no way. 😱😷🤢
From the crime scene cleanup videos I've seen, the cleaners generally take out the section of flooring that a long deceased person was laying on to clean up the fluids that seeped through and replace it. In this video it just looked like they cleaned the top and left the original flooring there.
watching this 10-min video was already mentally challenging for me - so, I can't even imagine how he does it as a full-time job. I hope he also takes good care of himself! and as always, I like Hiroko as an interviewer so much - the best questions that could've been asked! and even though she couldn't stand the smell, she still went in and tried to understand Akira's position / perspective. RESPECT
I respect what he said about ghosts in the end and the work he does. There is a stigma surrounding homes of the deceased especially if by suicide or murder. He said people are making entertainment out of death basically so he doesn't like calling the deceased ghosts. I'm with him on that.
Interviewer: "where did he do it?"
Guy: "well uh..... right here"
Interviewer: (O.O)
poor girl.....
I knew as before she got the whole sentence out that it was going to end up somewhere around that door way. You can see his body language become more reverent in that area
Hiroko: Where did he die?
Salesman: *indicates right where she's standing*
BEST MOMENT HAHAHAHA
Continues to explain how hanging from a doorknob works 😭
Wait how is that funny ??
Hiroko is a very good interviewer. she have lots of empathy. and the flow of conversation seems to be natural. also i can feel the sadness of this interview. but i really don't think just because a house got someone died in it, that it haunted. ghost is everywhere.
I like this documentary, what an interesting concept! cheap homes just because someone died there. That's awesome.. That's Grudge. Wish that was so in Australia. This guy's a f*****g legend man... hats off to him. He has that 'horror story narrator' guy look... loving it!
This man found a purpose in his life. His job is definitely different and not something anyone would do. Much respect for him!
The fact that these incidents still brake his heart, shows he's still emotionally aware, alive, connected...
Great interview!
If he sell thousands of houses, how does he memorize all those stories from each house. Imagine thinking about those stories before going to sleep. 😳😳
He probably doesn't. The people who do work like this do it because they are able to cope with it better than most. And they find their work brings positivity to an otherwise negative situation. Some stories stay with you forever, but you don't let them control you.
I think every house has a file that has the story of what happened in it and he reviews that when he needs to show the house to someone.
We should applause for the team who did this episode, so brave and passionate