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A two-year-old boy was the first baby in 20 years for a Japanese village where most residents are aged 65 and above and there are life-sized puppets to ease the feeling of loneliness Ichinono ...

Image Credit: AFP Ichinono: Riding his tricycle with cheerful abandon, Kuranosuke Kato is the only child in his tiny, depopulated Japanese village overrun by life-sized puppets. The two-year-old ...

The small population of a village in Japan is now "outnumbered by puppets" - after using life-like mannequins to replace those who have left the area. Fewer than 60 people live in the southern ...

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The small population of a village in Japan is now "outnumbered by puppets" - after using life-like mannequins to replace those who have left the area. Fewer than 60 people live in the southern village ...

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 ...

Riding his tricycle with cheerful abandon, Kuranosuke Kato is the only child in his tiny, depopulated Japanese village overrun by life-sized puppets. The two-year-old was the first baby in two decades ...

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