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By: Madalena Penny<\/p>\n

Landlords in the UK receive very little positive publicity.\u00a0 Through historical renditions of Dickensian property owners that throw starving families out into the streets with Machiavellian pleasure, the UK\u2019s private rented sector is in need of the business investment model delivering a new image to bring it in line with a more empathetic ethos that landlords generally apply to tenants.<\/p>\n

The Japanese, however appear to have a far more clinical approach to buy-to-let with much less compassion than their British counterparts.\u00a0 Under their stringent suicide laws enabled in 2006 to tackle the soaring suicide rate, landlords are suing the families of tenants for loss of revenue and compensation if a tenant takes their own life in a rented property.<\/p>\n

In the last 12 years, over 30,000 Japanese people kill themselves per annum, that\u2019s one every 16 minutes.\u00a0 71% of last year\u2019s victims were men, mainly suffering from financial pressures.<\/p>\n

As Japan\u2019s railway operators sought compensation from families of suicides who threw themselves under trains causing service delays, landlords followed similar suit.\u00a0 Under Japanese law, landlords must disclose to potential tenants if the apartment was the scene of an unnatural death or event.\u00a0 Understandably rents are reduced in such cases and a ritual cleansing is performed on the property.<\/p>\n

Organizations opposed to the financial demands made on families of suicide victims have been established in response to the compensation claims.\u00a0 One instance reported a letting agent who had actually approached a family while the cremation of a suicide victim was in progress demanding the family pay 6-million Yen (\u00a345,616).\u00a0 Another family was asked for 5-million Yen (\u00a338,434) for an estimated future rental loss after a 30-year-old man committed suicide in his rented apartment, with a further 2-million Yen (\u00a315,375) for repairs and maintenance. <\/span><\/p>\n

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