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Kang Jae-hyun (28), who lives in Mapo-gu, Seoul, recently took a four-day trip to Japan with a friend. Instead of heading to ...

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 ...

The “patchwork landscape” of farmland and trees that enchanted so many throughout Japan and abroad has brought ... giant sightseeing buses in the small town also meant traffic jams.

a town on the smallest of Japan’s four main islands known for its paper industry. “If we don’t have the people we can’t make products and we can’t turn a profit. We’ll go under.