For many of us familiar with the charm of rural Japan, there is a strong sense of missed opportunity. Despite the ongoing depopulation crisis and its economic impact, Japan’s countryside communities ...

There’s a widespread belief in Japan that if you want to achieve educational or economic success, you come to Tokyo. As a matter of fact, it’s such a common move that Japanese even has a verb for it, ...

In his role as international business development director at Umari Inc., Justin Potts could best be described as a matchmaker. His goal is to connect Japan’s abundant local resources—its farmers, ...

In a mountainous area of Okayama Prefecture in western Japan, young Buddhist priests are struggling with shrinking ...

A population decrease is the biggest crisis Japan is facing because it will threaten not only the existence of many local communities in Japan but also the existence of the nation as we now know it.

SAPPORO, Japan -- The town of Urakawa in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido increasingly relies on workers from India to support its main industry of racehorse breeding, with farms hiring ...

TOKYO -- Japan is bringing in more foreign workers to help address a labor shortage, and the government wants to make sure Tokyo and other major cities are not the only places that benefit from the ...