According to the Shirakawa village board of education, this was the first re-thatching in Shirakawa-go in five years. Work on May 13 involved climbing the steep roof of the living quarters at ...

"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 dwindling Japanese village has found a creative way to combat loneliness amid rural depopulation and declining birth rates. Ichinono, a community of fewer than 60 people north of Osaka ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Riding his tricycle with cheerful abandon, Kuranosuke Kato is the only child in his tiny, depopulated Japanese village ...

"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." ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 was the first baby ...