These are mostly Japanese but there are also some international ... the praises of local businessman Shinya Ominami. "For a rural town, one person can make such a big difference," he says.

With onsen hot springs, ancient shrines and great forests of broadleaf and conifer trees that conceal galloping waterfalls, ...

Japan’s countryside certainly offers a different experience than its cities, but whether that makes it categorically superior ...

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 ...

OSHU CITY, Japan — In Oshu, the small rural town where Shohei Ohtani grew up, baseball is as much a part of the landscape as the farmers’ fields and low-rise hills surrounding it. The area has ...

Many young people working in Tokyo and other major Japanese cities during the COVID-19 pandemic are abandoning the once sacrosanct idea that employees must put work above all and shifting their ...