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Japan is trying to lure people into rural areas by selling $500 homes, but it's not enough to fix the country's 'ghost town' problem
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 ...
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Land prices up in half of Japan's rural areas for 1st time in 33 yrs
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 Japan Times15h
Japan picks model projects to promote 'dual habitation'
The land ministry has selected 26 model projects to promote a lifestyle in which people divide their time between rural and ...
The Japan Times5d
Japan to extend financial aid to more people moving out of Tokyo
The government plans to expand eligibility to include people taking up jobs in agriculture, medicine and welfare, as well as ...
Time1mon
Foreign News: IN RURAL JAPAN
Nearly half Nakago’s area can be cultivated and its families ... search for democracy that is going on nowadays in rural Japan.
朝日新聞社1y
Rural areas rely on luxury rail traffic to keep traditions alive
When West Japan Railway Co. (JR West)’s Twilight ... in charge of cruise train operations. Residents of some rural areas have high expectations that the sightseeing trains will help to maintain ...
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1 in 4 teleworkers mulling ditching Japan’s big cities for rural areas
Many young people working in Tokyo and other major Japanese cities during the COVID ... who live in Osaka and Nagoya and their neighboring areas. Asked if during the pandemic their ideas about ...