He’d spent years backpacking around the world, and Japanese traveler Daisuke Kajiyama ... Kajiyama was driving around Tamatori, a small village located in the Shizuoka prefecture, between ...

As depopulation deepens around the world, a small village in Japan turns to puppets ... Sitting against the side of a house, another pair gleefully lounges in the sun. “We’re probably ...

A piece of Japanese history is ... to the institution in 2016. The house belonged to the Yokoi family for generations, as they served as the shōya (village leaders) of a farming community near ...

Daisuke Kajiyama and his late wife, Hila, spent two years restoring an abandoned traditional Japanese house. The couple turned ... a charming village surrounded by bamboo forests and rice fields ...

The Japanese village established in the small hall of the Madison-Square Garden, which will be open to the public to-day, was visited yesterday, in the afternoon and evening, by a large number of ...

A shōya was a village leader, according to Robert Hori, gardens cultural curator and program director for The Huntington. “The Japanese Heritage Shōya House will take the visitor back in time ...