NPR’s Anthony Kuhn visited Japan’s most aged village, where most residents are over age 65. Why rural villages in Japan are shrinking Villages across Japan’s countryside are facing extinction as the ...

Villages across Japan’s countryside are facing extinction as the population ages and shrinks. NPR’s Anthony Kuhn visited Japan’s most aged village, where most residents are older than 65.

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, has been ...

As overtourism strains Japan’s major cities, Gifu Prefecture offers travelers a slower, more intimate way to experience the ...

The plum blossoms and toads are out a month early in the warmest Japanese winter for years. Nevertheless, Japan’s farmers, like farmers anywhere, worry about the weather—and everything else. Last week ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

Visitors are rushing to Japan at the moment as the weak yen is making the normally big-budget destination more affordable.

Two of Russia's independent media channels, TV2 — an independent television channel that had been designated a ‘foreign agent’ by the authorities and is now operating solely online from Tomsk — and ...