Like other industrial nations, Japan has been facing massive demographic challenges in its agriculture sector. An aging population and a lack of younger individuals entering the sector to replace them ...

Dani and Evan Benton moved to Japan on a startup business visa in 2023. They bought an abandoned house for about $6,500 and turned it into a guesthouse. The couple have also started a homestead with a ...

Part of the global Wwoof programme, the Sho Farm near Tokyo lets visitors get their hands dirty and learn all about organic farming.

Japan's declining population in agricultural regions could be having a damaging impact on biodiversity—a trend that could spread through East Asia and Europe as global fertility rates fall—according ...

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 ...

Japan’s population keeps shrinking, and nowhere is the decline more visible than in its rural towns. From Akita to Aomori, entire communities are disappearing as young people move to cities, ...

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 ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - After December's landslide re-election, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's program to revive the nation's economy is set to meet perhaps its stiffest challenge, the nation's ...

Stations, vacant properties and an old bus have been turned into tourist accommodation, giving rural communities new life With rural Japan experiencing severe depopulation, unstaffed railway stations ...