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4 little-known towns and villages worth visiting in Japan
Japanophiles and first-time visitors alike will enjoy this tour off the beaten track in little-known towns and villages that ...
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This Japanese village's youth have left; now, mannequins take their place
In Ichinono, Japan, life-sized puppets now occupy the village as a response to population decline and rural depopulation. Once bustling with families and children, the village is now mostly ...
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This Japanese village has replaced its young people with mannequins. Here's why
A small village in Japan is overflowing by puppets who are being used not to decorate the area but to stave off loneliness among the locals. The life-like mannequins have been placed to replace ...
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The eerie village so empty where puppets outnumber people for one major reason
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 ...
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'Our pride': Lone child brings hope to Japan's puppet village
Image Credit: AFP Ichinono: Riding his tricycle with cheerful abandon, Kuranosuke Kato is the only child in his tiny, depopulated Japanese village overrun by life-sized puppets. The two-year-old ...
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Out-of-towner puts Nara village on map for foreign visitors
TOTSUKAWA, Nara Prefecture--Hanako Kakuta became enchanted with the appeal of Japan’s biggest village, nestled as it is by summits in the Kii mountain range. With a population of just 3,000 or ...