Revitalizing rural Japan is ... moment when people feel the happiness the most," Sawayama said. The boy's parents, Rie, a ...

There's a pretty heartbreaking reason a village in Japan is home to almost more human-sized puppets compared to 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 ...

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 ...

[9] Over the following days, the bear managed to elude more hunters and soldiers sent to the village, ransacking homes that had been abandoned by the local people. It was not until December 14 ...

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 ...