Nestled in the mountainous region of Gokayama, the village of Ainokura is a UNESCO World Heritage Site thanks to its “gassho-zukuri” houses, a type of architecture typically Japanese ...

These villages in western Japan, in the mountains of Honshu, are standing representatives of an entire chapter of Japanese rural history and tradition that still lives on. This is an opportunity ...

The entire town was contaminated by the radiation released during the accident. The most beautiful village in Japan Kanno ran a dairy farm in Iitate, his hometown, after graduating from university.

Japan's Housing and Land Survey, conducted every five years, logged a record high of 8.49 million akiya in 2018. These abandoned houses have created "ghost villages" in Japan's rural prefectures ...

An illumination event at a UNESCO World Heritage-listed settlement in this central Japan village began on Jan. 13, lighting up hist ...

In 20 towns and villages around Japan, the number of available assembly seats was higher than the number of candidates, up from eight in the previous local elections. They included: Akkeshi in ...

Tourism is key to the revival of Japan’s marginal villages, in the process unlocking not only precious living cultures and traditions but people’s sanities. Share At a time of bigger tourism ...