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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Shinjiro Koizumi, agriculture minister of Japan, eats a rice ball during his visit to a rice farm in Sugito, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. Shinjiro Koizumi, agriculture ...

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 ...

Farm, cook, fish, collect, explore, and experience the beautiful changing seasons of Japan. Players can also enjoy traditional Japanese festivals — such as Hatsumōde, Ōmisoka, and Tsukimi — where they ...

"A Basketmaker in Rural Japan" 1994 11 minutes Made for the exhibition A Basketmaker in Rural Japan at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Funding from the Smithsonian Institution ...