Thatched living-roof structures absorb rainwater and prevent water run-off, just like those in traditional Japanese gardens. The Village’s layout emulates Japan’s “mozenmachi”—the ...

This is a tale of Japanese survival in another tsunami ... mudflats between the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports. In their village, called Fish Harbor, immigrants and their children settled ...

You may not run into another living soul if you happen to visit the tiny Japanese village of Nagoro. Only 35 residents still live there. But you'll almost certainly run into a scarecrow in the ...

Entrepreneurial young Japanese people are trying to reinvigorate Japan's most aged village — where more than two thirds of residents are over 65 — and keep it from vanishing from the map.

Months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese American fishing community ... After the evacuation, most of its village was razed. But for more than 80 years, two buildings have been left ...

Nestled amongst rolling green fields of rice paddies in the south of Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture lies a picturesque village .

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. -- Olympic College archeology students are helping dig up an old Japanese village on Bainbridge Island. The field study is a part of an eight-week field study for the ...

For nearly three decades, Japanese Village Plaza has served as a barometer for Little Tokyo. Built in 1978 as a symbol of the neighborhood's up-and-coming status, the outdoor mall later lost ...

In the central Japanese mountain village of Damine, children have kept up an unbroken tradition of performing Japan's classical theater, kabuki, year after year for more than three centuries.