Small town Japan is dying. It Has been for some time now. Millions of abandoned homes, and youth flocking from the Japanese countryside to the big cities like Tokyo. But that's not the WHOLE ...

TOKYO -- Japan must address the problem of population drain from rural areas if it is to enjoy a new era of economic growth, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Thursday. In a speech to ...

Japan may be known for its bustling, neon-lit cities, but much of the country, as beautifully depicted in anime, still retains a peaceful, pastoral countryside. Many iconic anime set in rural ...

Masato Shiota brought his papermaking business back from the brink, paying down debt and buying machinery to automate some ...

It’s not that Japan’s big cities are inherently suffocating, but the rest of the country is often so rural that even a few hours under the open sky of a prefecture or two away from the main ...

Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Friday they would vote to keep the federal government operating beyond a midnight deadline and avert a damaging shutdown that could ...

So rebuilding rural trains must be done as part of rebuilding communities.” But the 99-year-old business he took over in 2011 is the exception rather than the rule in Japan, home to hundreds of ...