Thatched roofs were once a common sight in the Japanese countryside, but they started to disappear in the 1950s, when people began migrating en masse to the cities. You can still see them in ...

Ichinono is just one of many depopulated towns in Japan, where birth rates dropped to a record-low 1.2 births per woman last year. Marriages also saw a significant decline, with only 474,717 ...

Nick Cladis, a professor at the University of Iowa, was granted to host a Japanese papermaking festival on Friday April 14, 2023. Special artists Masami Igarashi and Hideaki Taki came from Echizen, a ...

New photos out of Japan's "puppet village," where puppets created to mimic the presence of children now outnumber the dwindling number of mostly elderly residents.

Getty Images. Experience the local hospitality on a visit to Shirakawa-go, located 100 miles north of Nagoya. You can reach the village via bus or train from major cities.

Japan’s median age has been rising since 1950, with the figure reaching to 49.1 in 2023, according to an estimate by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.. So in Ichinono ...

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The Japanese villages where time stood still. Story by The Week UK • 6mo. T hatched roofs were once a common sight in the Japanese countryside, but they started to disappear in the 1950s, ...