Niseko, on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido, is coveted by skiers and snowboarders for its powder and its luxurious wintertime retreats—from the Higashiyama Niseko Village, a Ritz-Carlton ...

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, is ...

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 ...

Last Thursday, as Metro Manila was drenched by rain, I walked into a shimmering Japanese village, complete with pine trees and pagodas. And yet I didn’t need to fly four hours to get there. All I had ...

Fascinating footage shows an urban explorer uncovering an abandoned Japanese village that has lay empty for more than two decades. Nagatani Village, which is deep in the country's Ohi District, was ...

Inside her home in Southern California, Mary Izumi sits at her piano flipping through the yellowed pages of her old songbooks. Along with her high school yearbook, they are the last remaining ...