Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The historic Shōya house dates back to about 1700. A piece of Japanese history is now a part of Southern California’s landscape.

This video explores daily life in rural Japan and the habits that support longevity community and balance. Discover how ...

NPR’s Anthony Kuhn visited Japan’s most aged village, where most residents are over age 65. Why rural villages in Japan are shrinking Villages across Japan’s countryside are facing extinction as the ...

The once-thriving Japanese hamlet of Nanmoku was known for its silk and timber industries. Today, it is the country's most aged village, with... How Japan is trying to solve the problem of shrinking ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

When Lee Xian Jie first stepped foot in the traditional farmhouse located in Ryujin-mura, a village in Japan's Wakayama prefecture, it was "quite rundown" — with floors so rickety they shook beneath ...

A rural infrastructure project funded by the government of Japan has improved irrigation access and rural connectivity for farming communities in northern Laos, benefiting more than 1,200 households ...