The initiative aims to promote rural revitalization through corporate-sponsored training programs and employee side jobs ...
Because of the shrinking population and internal migration, Japan has millions of unoccupied houses in rural areas. But thanks to the low prices and the lack of restrictions on foreigners ...
Batgerel Ariungerel, a 26-year-old Mongolian who has fallen for the town of Otsuchi in Iwate Prefecture, has always preferred ...
When West Japan Railway Co. (JR West)’s Twilight ... in charge of cruise train operations. Residents of some rural areas have high expectations that the sightseeing trains will help to maintain ...
Being here is exciting and overwhelming, but this isn’t why I came to Japan. Far away from the crowded ... many people have had to leave Hagi and other rural communities in recent years ...
94 percent of all Japanese local governments are expected to see a residential decrease. In some rural areas, residents are afraid their homeland will disappear. Kawakami Village in Nara ...