A dwindling Japanese village has found a creative way to combat loneliness amid rural depopulation and declining birth rates.

With most of the population gone, residents of one village in Japan have come up with a novel plan to make it less lonely — ...

A Japanese village struggling with a low population created life-sized dolls to mimic the feeling of a bustling society. The hamlet of Ichinono, which has less than 60 residents and only one child ...

A dwindling Japanese village has found a creative way to combat loneliness amid rural depopulation and declining birth rates. Ichinono, a community of fewer than 60 people north of Osaka ...