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Otona Shima Ryugaku — Island Living Program
Ama-cho, Oki Islands, Shimane
The island's unofficial motto is "Nai mono wa nai" — what isn't here, isn't needed. It's a quiet provocation, aimed at e
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Nishiawakura Local Venture Program
Nishiawakura, Aida District, Okayama
A village that did not abandon its forest is calling the young. Nishiawakura in Okayama is a small mountain village of a
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Nanmoku Mountain Village Study Program
Nanmoku, Kanra District, Gunma
From the most aged village in Japan. Nanmoku in Gunma is said to have one of the highest proportions of elderly resident
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Goto Islands Farming and Fishing Life Experience
Fukue Island and the Goto Islands, Goto, Nagasaki
A life with both sea and field. The Goto Islands of Nagasaki are a scattering of more than a hundred and forty islands i
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Kesennuma Fisherman Experience
Kesennuma, Miyagi
Betrayed by the sea, and still living with the sea. Kesennuma in Miyagi is a port town of Tohoku with one of the world's
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Hida-Furukawa Artisan Town Stay
Furukawa, Hida, Gifu
In a town where carp swim, you face the wood. Hida-Furukawa in Gifu has rows of white-walled storehouses, and hundreds o
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Yoshino Forestry Experience
Yoshino, Yoshino District, Nara
Looking five hundred years ahead, you plant a tree. Yoshino in Nara is famous for its cherry blossoms. But it is also a
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Nishiawakura: Living the Rural Revival From the Inside
Nishiawakura Village, Aida-gun, Okayama
Nishiawakura Village has a population of roughly fifteen hundred and a reputation, among people interested in rural rege
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Tokachi Farmstay: Sleeping in Japan's Bread Basket
Otofuke and Obihiro area, Tokachi, Hokkaido
The Tokachi plain is Japan's agricultural heartland — wheat, potatoes, dairy, sugar beet, production at a scale that the
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Kamiyama: The Village That Reinvented Itself for Remote Work
Kamiyama Town, Myozai-gun, Tokushima
Kamiyama is a small mountain town in Tokushima with a population under two thousand and a reputation, in certain circles
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Obuse: The Small Town That Chose Art and Kept Its Soul
Obuse Town, Kamitakai-gun, Nagano
Obuse is a town of ten thousand people in northern Nagano, and it receives more visitors than a town of that size would
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Ohnan: Where Japan's Countryside Is Trying Something New
Ohnan Town, Ochi-gun, Shimane
Ohnan Town in the mountains of Shimane has a population under ten thousand and a food-based regeneration strategy that h
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Tosa Shimizu: A Few Days in the Life of a Fisherman
Tosa Shimizu City, Kochi
The fishing boats leave before dawn. The catch depends on the season, the weather, and the skill of the crew. The market
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Gojome: Half Farming, Half Whatever You Want to Be
Gojome Town, Minamiakita-gun, Akita
The concept of han-nou han-X — half farming, half whatever else you want to do — was developed as a philosophy of rural
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Wakasa: Sleeping in a Farmhouse That Someone Brought Back to Life
Wakasa Town, Mikata-kami-gun, Fukui
The farmhouses of the Wakasa Town area have been standing for generations — thick-beamed structures built for the winter
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Aya: Japan's Organic Farming Pioneer
Aya Town, Higashi-Morokata-gun, Miyazaki
Aya Town began its commitment to organic agriculture in the 1980s — a decision by the town government, supported by loca
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Ojika Island: A Slow Life on Japan's Most Beautiful Rural Inn
Ojika Town, Kitamatsuura-gun, Nagasaki
Ojika Island sits in the northern part of the Goto archipelago, more than three hours by ferry from Sasebo. The journey
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Tono: Sleeping Inside Japan's Most Famous Folktale Landscape
Tono City, Iwate
Tono is the setting of Yanagita Kunio's 'Legends of Tono,' published in 1910 — a collection of folktales gathered from l
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Higashikawa: The Town That Grows Furniture and People
Higashikawa Town, Kamikawa-gun, Hokkaido
Higashikawa Town's population has been growing while most of rural Hokkaido's has been declining. The reasons are multip
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Minami-Oguni: Long Stay in Japan's Most Beloved Onsen Village
Minami-Oguni Town, Aso-gun, Kumamoto
Kurokawa Onsen sits in a narrow valley in the mountains of South Oguni, a small town in the Aso region of Kumamoto. The
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Tsuruoka: Japan's UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy
Tsuruoka City, Yamagata
Tsuruoka has more than two hundred varieties of heirloom vegetables — crops that have been cultivated in this region for
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Uchiko: Living in a Town That Decided to Stay Itself
Uchiko Town, Kita-gun, Ehime
Uchiko's main historic street survived the twentieth century largely intact because the town made a series of decisions,
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Sado Island: Where Gold, Noh, and Terraced Rice Fields Meet
Sado City, Niigata
Sado Island sits in the Sea of Japan off the Niigata coast, large enough to have its own distinct geography — a northern
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Amami Oshima: Music and Jungle at the Edge of the Tropics
Amami City and Yamato Village, Kagoshima
Amami Oshima is not Okinawa and not the Japanese mainland; it is the largest island of an archipelago with its own disti
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Kudaka Island: The Island at the Center of Ryukyuan Spiritual Life
Kudaka Island, Nanjo City, Okinawa
Kudaka Island is five square kilometers, accessible by ferry from the southern Okinawa coast, home to roughly two hundre
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Iida: Where Every Village Has Its Own Puppet Theater
Iida City, Nagano
Iida City in southern Nagano is said to have more than two hundred puppet theater groups distributed across its villages
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Hagi: Living in the Town That Made Modern Japan
Hagi City, Yamaguchi
The men who made the Meiji Restoration were disproportionately from Hagi. Yoshida Shoin, whose private academy produced