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.

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The Japanese village notorious for the dolphin hunt documented in the film “The Cove” has slaughtered a pod of dolphins but spared the youngest animals, activists said Tuesday. Most of the ...

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 ...

The ancient village of Taiji, portrayed in the Oscar ... This was the birthplace of Japanese whaling in the 1600s, and shrines to the animals dot the streets, with the history celebrated in ...

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.

put the picturesque Japanese village of Shirakawa-go on your dream travel list. This mountain hamlet is one of the snowiest spots in Japan — and the world. Shirakawa-go, which literally ...