Japan News News Japan » People: Young Japanese people work to revive a vanishing village
Entrepreneurial young Japanese people are trying to reinvigorate Japan's most aged village — where more than two thirds of residents are over 65 — and keep it from vanishing from the map. Villages ...
News Japan » People: My family moved from the US to Japan years ago. Living here has been filled with surprising perks, quirks, and challenges.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. My family moved from the US to Japan years ago. Living here has been filled with surprising perks, quirks, and challenges. Since ...
News Japan » People: Japan's population is shrinking. Here's what it means – and what some are doing about it.
Modern Japan sounds like a sci-fi premise: the incredible shrinking country. Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo. But the ...
News Japan » People: Why So Many People Feel Like Outsiders In Japan
In February 2023, a snowy town in Fukui suddenly made news headlines. The government of Ikeda Town had published "The 7 Rules of Life in Ikeda" in its promotional pamphlet, and these rules laid down ...
News Japan » People: Johatsu: How Some People in Japan Vanish from Their Lives
Some people pay to live, but others want to pay to disappear without a trace. This is Japan’s Johatsu. A service where you can drop money to completely (and legally) disappear from the face of the ...
News Japan » People: As Japan’s popularity booms, a new survey shows strong anti‑foreigner sentiment
Japan is experiencing historically high numbers of foreigners. Its population is shrinking, and its workforce is ageing, driving foreign labour to historic levels. In addition, the number of ...
News Japan » People: Japan enlists 1,800 people to pull a 360-tonne castle keep by hand
Japan enlists 1,800 people to pull a 360-tonne castle more than two metres by hand - Hirosaki Castle was moved in 2015 to allow repairs to its earthquake-damaged stone walls - now its being moved back ...