In response to the ongoing challenges posed by Japan’s shrinking population and aging rural demographics, the agriculture ministry is introducing a new initiative to dispatch corporate personnel ...

After six years of running an urban farm and renting an Airbnb ... population and internal migration, Japan has millions of unoccupied houses in rural areas. But thanks to the low prices and ...

The number of young people in rural areas ... and Japanese agriculture is increasingly relying on workers from abroad to take their place. Victor Zambrano Rumayna farms 15 hectares of land in ...

Being here is exciting and overwhelming, but this isn’t why I came to Japan. Far away from the crowded ... many people have had to leave Hagi and other rural communities in recent years ...

The village of Takigahara, in Japan’s rural Ishikawa prefecture ... moved to Takigahara — from around Japan and abroad — to ...

The finest example of this model is perhaps Hacker Farm a Hacker community centered around a small village in rural Japan. At present 4 families have relocated to the area with more on the way ...

Projections suggest Japan will be short of some 340,000 caregivers in 2025, when post-war baby-boomers reach 75. The central government has changed course and is also likely to accept more workers ...

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