The trend resulting from rapid depopulation will affect both metropolitan and rural areas, the National Institute of ...

A dwindling Japanese village has found a creative way to combat loneliness amid rural depopulation and declining birth rates.

Japan politician apologises for remark on ‘women removing their uteruses after 30’ - Naoki Hyakuta brought up the ...

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 ...

In Ichinono, Japan, life-sized puppets now occupy the village as a response to population decline and rural depopulation. Once bustling with families and children, the village is now mostly ...

As depopulation deepens around the world, a small village in Japan turns to puppets to stitch their community back together. Ichinono is only one of several “doll villages” in Japan where life ...

underscoring the daunting task the country faced in tackling depopulation. Japan recorded 350,074 births between January and June, 5.7 per cent fewer compared to the same period last year ...

Tokunaga shared sentiments of Karatsu’s empty streets and the greater effects of Japan’s depopulation crisis, namely a decline in community pride. “People say we don’t have a lot in ...