Hiking on the Nakasendo trail in the Gifu and Nagano Prefectures of central Japan, I encounter more Buddhist ... visiting two ...

As a typical rural area in Japan, convenience cannot be expected in Nagi like in urban districts. How could this small town, with less ... money as it currently does to support child-rearing ...

Starkly, Japan’s population of 125 million is forecast to halve by the century’s end. Driven by plunging birth rates and urban migration, depopulation has hit small-town Japan in the interior ...