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'Outnumbered by puppets': Depopulated village in Japan crafts dolls for sense of life
With most of the population gone, residents of one village in Japan have come up with a novel plan to make ... Elsewhere, two ...
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Japan Village Tackles Population Crisis With Mannequins
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 ...
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40-year-old left the U.S. to live on a 'stunning island' in Japan for $710/month: 'We're so excited about our future here'
In 2021, my husband Evan and I sold our house and urban farm on the outskirts of New Orleans. We spent the next year and a ...
The Taipei Times4h
Taiwan in Time: When a Siraya village requested the shogun’s protection
Lee surmises that the Sinkan were probably trying to persuade Japan to send people to trade and farm in their village so that ...
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Japanese Rural Life Adventure is exactly what it sounds like and more
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 ...
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Aging farmers face extreme temperatures as they struggle to maintain Japan's rice crop
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 ...