Get paid 88,000 yen to spend a night proving a haunted house is ghost-free

Japan's unusual "ghost investigation" job is attracting attention as specialists are being hired to spend an entire night inside so-called haunted houses to prove they are free of paranormal activity. The service costs 88,000 yen (around Rs 31,000 or $542) per property and is helping owners sell or rent homes that have been abandoned because of their tragic past.The business has emerged as thousands of "jiko bukken" or stigmatized properties across Japan remain vacant, with many people refusing to buy or rent them because someone died there under distressing circumstances.What are Japan's 'jiko bukken' or stigmatized properties?A "jiko bukken" is a property where a suicide, murder, fatal fire or what Japan calls a "lonely death"—when an elderly person dies alone and remains undiscovered—has occurred.One such two-storey house in Yokohama has reportedly remained empty for at least five years.