Revitalizing rural Japan is ... moment when people feel the happiness the most," Sawayama said. The boy's parents, Rie, a midwife, and Toshiki, an IT consultant, moved to the village at the ...

A village in Japan has become so quiet that the people there make puppets to give the facade of a lively and youthful community. Ichinono, in southern Japan, has a population of just 60 people ...

People often imbue their names with ... However, the situation of the village drastically changed after Japan's defeat in World War II. Half of the villagers who had settled in Manchuria died ...

Now despite its resilient character, the village faces a problem that is widespread in Japan: a severely ageing population. Most people in Akasaki are over 65, with many living alone, including 74 ...

Workers in Japan's western prefecture of Kochi are making ... The brown sugar from Geisei Village is notable for its lighter color. Locally grown sugarcane is mainly used for the village's specialty.

Ishiba has called Japan's low birth rate a "quiet emergency", one that is starkly evident in places like Ichinono, a bucolic hamlet home to fewer than 60 people. "If the village is left as it is ...

2019 marks the end of the Heisei era in Japan ... in Kawakami Village discussed its future on March 2nd. During the discussion, Fujiyama showed unexpected data -- young people who choose to ...