Iwate and Fukushima Prefectures were ravaged by the 2011 tsunami that precipitated a catastrophic nuclear disaster. Now, this tragic, beguiling region is welcoming travellers back. Hope spiralled tender as a rice shoot along the resurrected Sanriku Railway Rias Line in north-eastern Honshu. Summer’s blooms spilled from pots on station platforms; storybook houses peeped from the […]
Some 68,000 people are expected to die alone and unnoticed in Japan this year, police say, as the population continues to age Here, amid the everyday discussions about the merits or otherwise of dyeing grey hair, people also share news about the latest lonely death, or kodokushi – officially defined as one in which “a
Behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts they live
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