In response to the ongoing challenges posed by Japan’s shrinking population ... a new initiative to dispatch corporate personnel to rural areas. The initiative, part of a new regional ...

While the money will be paid only to families who move out of greater Tokyo, they may also get the fee if they move to the mountainous areas within the city limits. Advisory Alert: It has come to ...

countries like Japan are putting money where their mouth is. They, in fact, offer 1 million yen per child to families, to ...

The number of young people in rural areas is declining, hit by falling fertility rates and migration into the big cities, and Japanese agriculture is increasingly relying on workers from abroad to ...

17, 1995, registered an intensity of 7 on the Japanese seismic scale of ... However, since urban areas have more buildings than rural zones, they also have more houses lacking sufficient ...

94 percent of all Japanese local governments are expected to see a residential decrease. In some rural areas, residents are afraid their homeland will disappear. Kawakami Village in Nara ...