Part 2 in a series
This summer, in a residential house surrounded by fields of potatoes and beets in a village called Makkari in Hokkaido’s Shiribeshi region, Henry Blake Turner, a 40-year-old from the U.K., started a real estate company — the only one in the village. The agency deals with properties in the village and the towns of Kyogoku and Rankoshi, as well as other towns in the vicinity of Niseko.
Turner came to Japan in October 2016 and has worked at a foreign real estate company for non-Japanese in the town of Kutchan. As he has started his own company, relatively lower land prices in Makkari village caught his attention.