The couple applied for a startup business visa, which allows foreigners to move to Japan to start a small business.

Rural areas ... on organic farms. "When I saw this place, I was like, wow, this was incredible," Byron said. "There's like a 600-year history here. There's all this abandoned farmland.

A photographer's fascination with old abandoned houses has provided ... The houses are on farms, crofts and rural estates. Mr Mackay said he was intrigued by lives once lived in the properties ...