Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Japanese village struggling with a low population created life-sized dolls to mimic the feeling of a bustling society. The ...

Inside her home in Southern California, Mary Izumi sits at her piano flipping through the yellowed pages of her old songbooks. Along with her high school yearbook, they are the last remaining ...

Shiroki Mitsunari does not remember seeing bears in the picturesque Japanese mountain village of Shirakawa when he was a child. But since a cub attacked a Spanish visitor there last month, protecting ...

A Japanese village struggling with a low population created life-sized dolls to mimic the feeling of a bustling society. The hamlet of Ichinono, which has less than 60 residents and only one child, is ...