You can get in touch with Micah by emailing [email protected]. A dwindling Japanese village has found a creative way to combat loneliness amid rural depopulation and declining birth rates.

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The Japanese village established in the small hall of the Madison-Square Garden, which will be open to the public to-day, was visited yesterday, in the afternoon and evening, by a large number of ...

You may not run into another living soul if you happen to visit the tiny Japanese village of Nagoro. Only 35 residents still live there. But you'll almost certainly run into a scarecrow in 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.

In the central Japanese mountain village of Damine, children have kept up an unbroken tradition of performing Japan's classical theater, kabuki, year after year for more than three centuries.

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. -- Olympic College archeology students are helping dig up an old Japanese village on Bainbridge Island. The field study is a part of an eight-week field study for the ...