Writer Hannah Kirshner first moved to Yamanaka Onsen to better understand its craft culture. Almost 10 years later, she’s ...

A school often serves as a natural community hub, but schools are closing all over rural Japan. Since the early 20th century, ...

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 ...

Due to the rapidly aging population and limited income opportunities, many people have had to leave Hagi and other rural communities ... overlooked by Japan’s famous cities.

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.