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 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. The life-like mannequins have been placed to replace ...

This is Ogawa Productions first major film from their Yamagata period They had already started photography on Magino Village A Tale ... in the very heart of the Japanese mountains Ogawa discovers ...

In an agricultural village in Nagaoka, a city in Japan's Niigata Prefecture, sits a tent-shaped house called Hara House. "Instead of designing a conventional fully self reliant building ...

Image Credit: AFP Ichinono: 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 ...