Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are ...

Villages across Japan’s countryside are facing extinction as the population ages and shrinks. NPR’s Anthony Kuhn visited Japan’s most aged village, where most residents are older than 65.

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 ...

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 the tiny village of Tsuchikure, the average age of the residents is 77. Akiko Fujita reports on why this and thousands of rural Japanese communities like it are literally dying out.

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 ...

In the remote Japanese village of Ichinono, a fascinating yet bittersweet phenomenon unfolds as life-sized puppets fill the spaces once occupied by departed residents. Located in a mountainous region, ...

Kuma Village chose the latter, leading to the launch of the zero-carbon village revival project. This initiative incorporated self-consumption distributed PV and energy storage system (ESS) into the ...

Japanophiles and first-time visitors alike will enjoy this tour off the beaten track in little-known towns and villages that have managed to preserve all their authenticity. Almost any travel ...

For many generations Ichiro Ishikawa’s ancestors had lived in Ueno, a remote, semifeudal village in Shizuoka prefecture. Ueno’s rich, black volcanic soil yielded rice, corn, sweet potatoes and garden ...