With most of the population gone, residents of one village in Japan have come up with a novel plan to make ... Elsewhere, two ...

A dwindling Japanese village has found a creative way to combat loneliness amid rural depopulation and declining birth rates. Ichinono, a community of fewer than 60 people north of Osaka ...

She has about a decade of experience in journalism. Japanese Rural Life Adventure is what it says on the tin — it’s a 16-bit-style farming sim that takes place in the countryside, and it’s ...

In the remote village of Kamimomi in Japan's western Okayama prefecture ... drop in quality from rising temperatures, according to a farming ministry report last year. "Not only is the appearance ...