Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are ...

Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are ...

From Shikoku to Seattle The Tsuyoshi and Yayoi Inouye Family History. By Geraldine Shu NAP Contributor. Tsuyoshi Inouye was born and raised in Ehime Prefecture, Japan, in a rural ...

Beneath the chants of Exorcism in Japan, something stirs. The dead still listen, and the living still try to talk them down.

Swede Anton Wormann bought several akiya and renovated them in a Japandi style. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Set as near as Seattle or far as rural Japan, these overlooked horror films are just the thing to watch this Halloweekend.

The Country Life quiz runs daily every afternoon, with new editions published at 4pm. Exquisite houses, the beauty of Nature, ...

DUNN COUNTY, Wis. (WEAU) - A study by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health revealed the closure of rural hospitals, including HSHS Sacred Heart and St. Joseph’s hospitals, has forced ...

Rural hospitals are vanishing, and Medicaid cuts could accelerate the collapse. From the deck his father built by hand, Eric Halfen watches strangers comb through the artifacts of his life. The ...

Dear Eric: I’m not happy where we live and want to move to be closer to my family. My parents are in good health now, but I’m concerned I don’t have much time left with them. However, I know if I tell ...