"There is possibility that these were people who had nowhere else to go," an investigative source ... It is believed some of them had fled from Japanese firms where they were working as technical ...
A small village in Japan is overflowing by puppets who are being ... with children living here but they were soon encouraged to go beyond the village to study. "We're now paying the price ...
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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As depopulation deepens around the world, a small village in Japan turns to puppets to stitch their community back together. Ichinono is only one of several “doll villages” in Japan where life ...
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Riding his tricycle with cheerful abandon, Kuranosuke Kato is the only child in his tiny, depopulated Japanese village ...
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 ...
"I seriously want to show that even a 'marginal island' can revive itself. I want to use manga, which is part of Japanese culture, to also attract foreign tourists to the island." ...
The small population of a village in Japan is now "outnumbered by puppets ... stands on a scooter, ready to go. Another puppet girl in a red helmet is seen sitting on a bike nearby.
"There is possibility that these were people who had nowhere else to go," an investigative source said ... It is believed some of them had fled from Japanese firms where they were working as technical ...
These realistic puppets now inhabit the village, providing companionship and vitality. In the rural Japanese village of ... children who were encouraged to go somewhere else.