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.

Tsukimi Ayano knows her small village of Nagoro ... has watched the Japanese town, which is located on the remote island of Shikoku, shrink from more than 300 people to around two dozen.

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 ...

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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A dwindling Japanese village has found a creative way to combat loneliness amid rural depopulation and declining birth rates. Ichinono, a community of fewer than 60 people north of Osaka ...

The village now has less than 60 people living in it most of whom have retired. The village was slowly abandoned after younger people moved to nearby cities for work and education Feeling empty ...

Hirahara chronicles the village’s tragic end in the evictions, deportations and forced removal of many residents to Manzanar and other government incarceration camps for people of Japanese ...

In the rural Japanese village of Ichinono ... support and hope of so many people - even though he has achieved absolutely nothing in life yet," his father said. Notably, Japan's ageing population ...