Photo by PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images “If the village is left as it is now, the only thing that awaits us is extinction,” Ichiro Sawayama, 74, head of its governing body, told Japan Today.

FUDAI, JAPAN — In the rubble of Japan’s northeast coast, one small village stands as tall as ever after the tsunami. No homes were swept away. In fact, they barely got wet. Fudai is the ...

Historic architecture: Tomonoura, a historic village in Hiroshima prefecture overlooking the Seto Inland Sea for more than 1,400 years, is home to about 280 buildings that date back to the Edo Period.

Today, it is Japan's most aged village, with two-thirds of residents over age 65. Many of the settlement's buildings are dilapidated or abandoned, and there's little new construction.

Japanese authorities have evacuated a small island village after the region was jolted by over 1,000 earthquakes in less than two weeks. Authorities issued evacuation orders on Thursday after the ...

Rie Kato, 33, and Toshiki Kato, 31, moved to the village as hybrid work became possible during the COVID-19 pandemic. They soon had a child and their two-year-old son, Kuranosuke Kato, became the ...

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.

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 ...

A Japanese village struggling with a low population created life-sized dolls to mimic the feeling of a bustling society. The hamlet of Ichinono, which has less than 60 residents and only one child ...