This village sits along a river running through the mountains, surrounded by forests of cedar and bamboo. The once-thriving hamlet was known for its silk, timber and a starchy root called konjac.

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-sized ...

In Japan's Iya Valley, Nagoro, also known as the "Nagoro Doll Village”, faces depopulation. Local resident Tsukimi Ayano has crafted hundreds of life-sized dolls to populate the village, breathing new ...

Nagoro is a village on Japan’s Shikoku island that would be pretty much entirely deserted if it wasn’t for the work of Tsukimi Ayano, a woman who’s decided that the best way to deal with a dwindling ...

Entrepreneurial young Japanese people are trying to reinvigorate Japan's most aged village — where more than two thirds of residents are over 65 — and keep it from vanishing from the map. Villages ...

According to Yuri Group, the Yamakoshi village’s experimental NFT strategy could attract attention from other nations facing declining birth rates. Yamakoshi, a secluded Japanese village nestled in ...

This is Ogawa Productions first major film from their Yamagata period They had already started photography on Magino Village A Tale but they were drawn to this village deep in the high country above ...

It’s the valley of the dolls. Quite literally. According to National Geographic, the village of Nagoro, Japan (called “Kakashi no Sato” or “Scarecrow Village”) has a total of 350 dolls in comparison ...

In rural Japan, the unstoppable forces of nature meet the immovable determination of the construction state. Can this village survive? Katoku beach and its village are wrestling with how to cope with ...