Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are ...

Dani and Evan Benton moved to Japan on a startup business visa in 2023. They bought an abandoned house for about $6,500 and turned it into a guesthouse. The couple have also started a homestead with a ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Japanese Rural Life Adventure Experience countryside living in Japanese Rural Life Adventure. "View the cherry blossoms in the spring, attend the festival ...

Like other industrial nations, Japan has been facing massive demographic challenges in its agriculture sector. An aging population and a lack of younger individuals entering the sector to replace them ...

Tokyo — When Akino Imanaka attended her junior high school graduation earlier this month, the whole community turned out to celebrate. It wasn't just that Imanaka had ranked at the top of her class — ...

In the heart of the Japanese mountains, the villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama are home to treasures of traditional ...

For many generations Ichiro Ishikawa’s ancestors had lived in Ueno, a remote, semifeudal village in Shizuoka prefecture. Ueno’s rich, black volcanic soil yielded rice, corn, sweet potatoes and garden ...