With the Japanese capital 7,000 miles away, he settled for the next best thing: A $13 bowl of vegan tantanmen ramen from Industry City’s sprawling new Japan Village, a 20,000-square-foot market ...

Japan Village debuted inside Industry City in Brooklyn this weekend, flooding the borough’s dining scene with Japanese food in the form of food stalls, an izakaya restaurant, and a grocery store ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Nestled in the hidden valleys of Shikoku, Japan, is the village of Nagoro. Its remote location ...

The village opens on July 13, has 3,600 rooms, 18,000 beds, a dining hall, gym, and photo room. There is also a "Fever Clinic" for COVID-19 testing and isolation. Visit Insider's homepage for more ...

INAKADATE, Japan Nearly two decades ago, Koichi Hanada, a clerk in the village hall, received an unusual request from his superior: find a way to bring tourists to this small community in rural ...

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 ...

The last children were born in the Japanese village Nagoro 18 years ago. Now, its population is about two dozen adults and 350 hand-made, life-size dolls. (Photos by The New York Times. Music and ...

Niigata Russian Village has a troubled past. Opened in 1993 to foster relations between Russia and Japan, it closed in 2002 for renovations. The reopening did not salvage the park, and Niigata ...