These realistic puppets now inhabit the village, providing companionship and vitality. In the rural Japanese village of Ichinono, a unique solution has emerged to combat loneliness and emptiness.

A small village in Japan is overflowing by puppets who are being used not to decorate the area but to stave off loneliness among the locals. Silence pervades the air in Ichinono, where residents ...

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A two-year-old boy was the first baby in 20 years for a Japanese village where most residents are aged 65 and above and there are life-sized puppets to ease the feeling of loneliness Ichinono ...

In Ichinono, Japan, life-sized puppets now occupy the village as a response to population decline and rural depopulation. Once bustling with families and children, the village is now mostly ...

A dwindling Japanese village has found a creative way to combat loneliness amid rural depopulation and declining birth rates. Ichinono, a community of fewer than 60 people north of Osaka ...

Riding his tricycle with cheerful abandon, Kuranosuke Kato is the only child in his tiny, depopulated Japanese village overrun by life-sized puppets. The two-year-old was the first baby in two decades ...

Vail Mountain opened village-to-village skiing on Friday with guests now being able to ski from the top of the Eagle Bahn Gondola down to Lionshead. The open terrain now includes the Eagle’s Nest ...