"Trending videos showing people - mainly foreigners - scooping up cheap Japanese houses and turning them into stylish
guesthouses and cafes have garnered many followers on social media in recent years, but Hall warned it's not as easy as it seems.
"The truth is most of these homes are not going to be sold to foreigners, or that the amount of administrative work and the rules behind it [are] not something easy for somebody who doesn't speak Japanese and read Japanese very well," he said.."
