Writer Hannah Kirshner first moved to Yamanaka Onsen to better understand its craft culture. Almost 10 years later, she’s found a community and made a home.

Due to the shrinking population and internal migration toward cities, there are millions of unoccupied houses in rural Japanese towns. In recent years, the Japanese government started offering ...

In 1960, there was an average of 39 households per rural community in Japan. By 2015, Tsutsui said, that number had fallen to just 15. Nearly all of Wakayama's 30 towns, cities, and villages have ...

Japan may be known for its bustling, neon-lit cities, but much of the country, as beautifully depicted in anime, still retains a peaceful, pastoral countryside. Many iconic anime set in rural ...

Discover Japan’s Noto Peninsula on a 5-day Walk Japan tour blending cuisine, hot springs and culture while supporting ...

Domestic tourism fuels longings for rural living among young Japanese, and in doing so creates potential for longer-term migration to Japan’s declining towns and hamlets, observed Ohe.

Read the following text, and answer questions 1-9 below: [1] Although cinemas are increasingly becoming things of the past in rural ... town of 43,500 has only deepened. [2] According to the Japan ...