The average land price rose for the first time in 33 years in more than half of surveyed rural areas in Japan, government data showed Tuesday, as the nation's economic recovery extends to asset values ...

The government plans to expand eligibility to include people taking up jobs in agriculture, medicine and welfare, as well as ...

While the US faces a shortage of homes, Japan is experiencing an altogether different issue: There's a glut of unoccupied homes throughout the country's rural areas. Japan's Housing and Land ...

The country has about 4,500 companies with annual sales of ¥10 billion or more, but many of them are concentrated in ...

While Japan's convenience store market may be considered oversaturated in terms of the sheer number of stores, major operator ...

The finest example of this model is perhaps Hacker Farm a Hacker community centered around a small village in rural Japan. At present 4 families have relocated to the area with more on the way ...

17, 1995, registered an intensity of 7 on the Japanese seismic scale of ... However, since urban areas have more buildings than rural zones, they also have more houses lacking sufficient ...

It is based on Imai’s tour of mountainous areas throughout Japan where he retraced sightings of the creature and learned about environmental destruction, depopulation and other issues in rural ...