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 ...

Land prices rose across Japan for a second straight year, with values in rural residential areas ending a three-decade decline, buoyed by low interest rates, factory construction and a tourism rebound ...

There is a small and rather unremarkable city of 30,000 people in one of Japan’s rather unremarkable prefectures, located around two hours due north by train from Kyoto, called Obama. It would have ...

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 ...

Recognizing that the shift to sustainability will depend not only on high-tech solutions and tentpole projects, the Newsweek Japan SDGs Awards (aligned with the United Nations' Sustainable Development ...

BOZEMAN (AP) Access to doctors is the biggest medical problem facing rural residents in both the United States and Japan, those attending a conference on rural health care agreed Saturday. There are ...