When people picture Japan, Tokyo's neon avenues or Kyoto's temple paths usually dominate the imagination. Yet a quieter story is unfolding far away from the rush. More Americans are turning to rural ...

That's really great news. Very optimistic article in these pessimistic times. Its really nice to see the Pandemic have a positive effect on Japan for a change. My company allowed us to work from home ...

Mobile apps that help women in the Indian countryside and tiny villages in Japan to open their homes to visitors from across the world are generating incomes, revitalising remote communities and ...

While working as a teacher in Atlanta, Georgia, Lexi Smith, 24, found herself dreaming of seeing more of the world and living a simpler life. "I wasn't quite loving the school system from having an ...

A US veteran moved to Japan and bought an abandoned house, or akiya, with his wife.Coco Lencho Japan. Lawrence Covian, 53, and his wife moved to Japan from the US in 2017. They bought an abandoned ...

KAWAKAMI, Japan, Nov. 23 (UPI) --Every morning at 6:00 am Yasufumi Shintani goes out to the street in front of his small log house coffee shop, "Coffee Shop Bonkura," in this rural mountain village of ...

She left France and moved to Japan alone to restore the property and start her own real-estate consultancy. "It's been three years now, but it still feels like a dream," Aguirre said. Coline Aguirre ...

My ninth-grade students recently had a lesson that discussed humanitarian work in Afghanistan. One passage read, “Have you ever heard of groups that collect Japanese school backpacks? They send them ...

NOSTALGIC TRAIN, a “heartrending, mysterious first-person adventure / walking simulator” set in the Japanese countryside, will launch for PC via Steam on June 13 in Japan for 2,000 yen, developer ...