Japan just took a big step into the future of public transport. On March 5th, in the quiet town of Sakai, Ibaraki Prefecture, ...

This is the biggest problem for small and medium-sized ... Ishiba’s efforts to revitalize rural economies facing ageing and shrinking populations. While Japan is allowing more underperforming ...

Rural cities and town across the country are also getting ready to do their part. In late February, a small town in southwestern Japan welcomed a delegation from one of the world's most famous and ...

We experience rural Kyushu as a natural tapestry of ... Driven by plunging birth rates and urban migration, depopulation has hit small-town Japan in the interior significantly.

BIEI, Hokkaido—Over the course of a year, a stampede of tourists 200 times larger than the local population barrels through this northern town ... from Japan’s urban areas to live in rural ...