Why this small city is the ‘eyeglasses capital’ of Japan
Among them is the small city of Sabae, in Fukui prefecture, about a 3.5-hour train ride from Tokyo. It’s widely known as ...
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Travelling through small-town Japan: What we saw, did, and ate
Unexpected detours, cultural wanderings and happy supermarket sprees are all part of the fun. Here's what our Japan road trip ...
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This Is the Smallest Park in the World—and It’s the Size of Just 4 Pieces of Paper
Located in Nagaizumi, Japan, this tiny park is the size of four pieces of paper—and it just set a Guinness World Record as the smallest in the world.
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Japan’s Nagaizumi Town now home to the world’s smallest park
At just 0.24 square meters, a tiny green space in Nagaizumi, Japan, has been recognized as the world’s smallest park by ...
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Mind the labor gap: Worker crunch piles pressure on small-town Japan
a town on the smallest of Japan’s four main islands known for its paper industry. “If we don’t have the people we can’t make products and we can’t turn a profit. We’ll go under.
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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
Japan's Housing and Land Survey ... the cultural divide and the bureaucratic difficulties that moving to a small town create. While COVID-19 gave many workers the option of working in big cities ...
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Small-town mayor in Hokkaido grapples with overtourism
The “patchwork landscape” of farmland and trees that enchanted so many throughout Japan and abroad has brought ... giant sightseeing buses in the small town also meant traffic jams.