They knew they wanted to live a simple, rural life but still have access to modern ... and doing this in Japan seemed feasible, especially considering that the country has 8.5 million akiya ...

Unexpected detours, cultural wanderings and happy supermarket sprees are all part of the fun. Here's what our Japan road trip ...

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.

Uchiyama Seichi began re-evaluating his life in 2011. In March of that year ... There's a glut of unoccupied homes throughout the country's rural areas. Japan's Housing and Land Survey, conducted ...

Drawn to the appeal of a slowly paced life in the Japanese countryside, some foreigners have settled down in the region. We follow Spanish photographer Tina Bagué as she captures images of fellow ...

J. W. Traphagan is a social anthropologist with research interests in Japanese rural life, population aging, medical anthropology, and the anthropology of science. He has published widely in academic ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The average land price rose for the first time in 33 years in more than half of surveyed rural areas in Japan, government data showed Tuesday, as the nation's economic ...

The government plans to expand in fiscal 2025 the scope of eligibility for financial aid given to people moving out of Tokyo to live and find work in rural ... move out of the Japanese capital ...

Risa came from Japan on a working holiday visa in 2011 and ... She speaks to SBS what it is like to live as a farmer’s wife in rural Victoria.