KAMIJIMA, Japan >> Murals of popular manga on vacant houses and public facilities have turned a remote island with a ...

Karve not only worked to educate women and for the remarriage of Hindu widows, he also went on the face of orthodoxy and married a widow himself in 1893 ... in Sheravali, a village near Murud, was ...

What makes a good retirement? I've been researching the lives of "silver backpackers": Japanese seniors who embark on a later ...

As the youngest resident by far, their son is adored by the other villagers, who bring him home-cooked meals and collectively ...

The youngest member of the village is two-year-old Kuranosuke, who came to the village in 2021 with his parents, Rie Kato, 33 ...

Even though Japan's greenhouse gas emissions have decreased throughout the past decade, air pollution causes over 44 thousand deaths annually. Rapid industrial development, economic growth ...

The village of Ichinono is emblematic of Japan's demographic woes as marriages and births continue to decline.

The village of Ichinono is emblematic of Japan's demographic woes as marriages and births continue to decline. A dwindling Japanese village has found a creative way to combat loneliness amid rural ...

The term qualified widow or widower refers to a tax filing status that allows a surviving spouse to use the married filing jointly tax rates on an individual return. The provision is good for up ...

In Ichinono, a small rural village in Japan, life-sized dolls have become ... Long-time resident Hisayo Yamazaki, an 88-year-old widow, recalled how many families once thrived in Ichinono.

In the rural Japanese village of Ichinono ... "We're probably outnumbered by puppets," Hisayo Yamazaki, an 88-year-old widow told AFP. She added that most families in Ichinono used to have ...