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In the Japanese Alps, these villages preserve a one-of-a-kind architecture
Ogimachi, a hamlet that bears witness to Japanese rural life of ages past Ogimachi, a hamlet in Shirakawa-go with some sixty gasshō-zukuri houses, most of which date back to the 19 th century ...
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Japan offers women $4,200 to marry rural men, quickly suspends plan
The Japanese government is offering women in the city 600,000 yen (US$4,200 or Rs 3,52,758) for marrying men living in rural areas, according to Asahi News. This is because of the imbalance in ...
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Japan's population crisis: Foreign farmers helping keep agriculture alive
The number of young people in rural areas is declining, hit by falling fertility rates and migration into the big cities, and Japanese agriculture is increasingly relying on workers from abroad to ...
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Japanese bookworm takes mobile library to children in rural Thailand
A children's mobile library run by a Japanese expat in northern Thailand ... books as "friends" for the youngsters in the remote, rural areas she visits. The 37-year-old remembers how reading ...