:jesus-christ: .
Tag places you've been to.
I got Sacramento, Tuscan, and New York. That's Kochi, Kuwana, and Tokyo.
The important thing to understand here is the sheer scale of destruction suffered by the peoples of Asia at the blood soaked hands of America.
Makes me wonder if the sheer destruction caused by the US (but not Japan for contextual reasons) is what leads to haunted village stories as you see in games like siren blood curse. I don't recall the story referencing WW2 but I wouldn't be surprised if the sheer death and destruction is what gave people the imagery for ghost towns where tons of people died rather than just left.
Nah I think it is mainly depopulation due to aging and the 90s boom leading people to abandon rural towns to live in the city. In the west at least there is usually some redevelopment but not in Japan. It is getting worse real ghost towns exist in Hokkaido for example.
And old people can't or wont leave, so they would die in the inaka, often alone.
No that has more to do with Japanese religion and rural depopulation I think.