'I live with a ghost': Japan's haunted homes attract bargain hunters
Ryua says that she shares her Tokyo apartment with a ghost From the moment Ryua first walked into her rental apartment in Tokyo she believed it to be haunted. "When I visited the place for a viewing there was a man standing there, glaring at me," she says. "Since the estate agent couldn't see him, I realised he must be a ghost." While someone more squeamish would probably have quickly left the flat never to return, Ryua chose to go ahead and move in. "I'm a bit of a contrarian, so I decided I wanted to become friends with this glaring male ghost," adds Ryua, who works as an aidoru, a young entertainer, and who doesn't wish to share her surname. Four years later, and still in the same apartment, she says she continues to experience paranormal activity on a daily basis. She says she hears endless footsteps and the ghost talking. The previous occupant of Ryua's apartment, pictured here…