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Did You Know a Japanese Village Has More Dolls Than People? The Eerie Charm of Nagoro. Japan’s rural population has been ...
With the Japanese capital 7,000 miles away, he settled for the next best thing: A $13 bowl of vegan tantanmen ramen from Industry City’s sprawling new Japan Village, a 20,000-square-foot market ...
Today, it is Japan's most aged village, with two-thirds of residents over age 65. Many of the settlement's buildings are dilapidated or abandoned, and there's little new construction.
A village is replacing young people with mannequins as population dwindles: ‘Outnumbered by puppets’ The village has a population of 60, with the last baby being born two decades ago ...
Today, it is Japan's most aged village, with two-thirds of residents over age 65. Many of the settlement's buildings are dilapidated or abandoned, and there's little new construction.
A Japanese village struggling with a low population created life-sized dolls to mimic the feeling of a bustling society. The hamlet of Ichinono, ...
The island was once home to 3,000 first- and second-generation Japanese Americans before many were taken to internment camps ...
Japan Village debuted inside Industry City in Brooklyn this weekend, flooding the borough’s dining scene with Japanese food in the form of food stalls, an izakaya restaurant, and a grocery store ...
When Japan Village was opening in 2018, Mr. Somoza asked Mr. Yoshida to talk to the press. He declined, forcing Mr. Somoza to do most of the interviews. “He’s modest,” Mr. Somoza said.