A record 8.46 million Japanese homes are sitting vacant as builders keep adding stock in a country where the population is shrinking.
The number jumped by 260,000 in a twice-a-decade survey released by the government on Friday, reaching 13.6 percent of housing, the Nikkei Asian Review reported.
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