The aim is to strengthen the flow of people from urban to rural areas by encouraging university students in big cities to return to their hometowns after graduation.

Politics Japan looks to post offices to keep rural areas alive Train stations and local governments outsource services as population shrinks ...

Tokyo's reaction follows Nigeria's announcement that Japan will 'create a special visa category for highly skilled, ...

To revitalize Japan's rural areas the government launched a co-innovation project that involves cutting-edge tech to boost its agriculture industry.

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 ...

An increasing number of Japanese youth are moving back to rural areas in search of a slower and more fulfilling lifestyle.

TOKYO -- Foreign workers in 46% of Japanese municipalities do not have sufficient access to Japanese-language classrooms, as rural areas struggle to p ...

M Ikeda, T Watanabe, M Kasahara, H Nakatsuka, Nutrient Intake of Women in Rural and Urban Areas in Japan, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1988), pp. 28-32 ...

Therefore, in this study, we evaluated the association between the altitudes of residential areas and salt intake in a rural Japanese region because altitude may be one of the proxies for ...