Shirakawa-go is famous for its gassho-zukuri farmhouses, which are more than two centuries old. These thatched-roof houses ...

Because of the shrinking population and internal migration, Japan has millions of unoccupied houses in rural areas ... and then they all go out to their fields and meet each other on the way ...

Biwaichi is basically the cycling path around Lake Biwa, Japan's largest freshwater lake in Shiga Prefecture. The full loop ...

Sparrows and a host of other creatures are vanishing in Japan as development and changing farm practices harm a delicate ...

The imbalance between rural and urban Japan has been recognized by both national ... the work centered around turning the abandoned paddy fields surrounding the house into fertile land to grow ...

This is the Japan of rice farmers and fields, fresh fish and wild boar ... In the 20th century the life of a rural hacker was a constant hunt for technological innovation. We scratched around ...