When people picture Japan, Tokyo's neon avenues or Kyoto's temple paths usually dominate the imagination. Yet a quieter story is unfolding far away from the rush. More Americans are turning to rural ...

She left France and moved to Japan alone to restore the property and start her own real-estate consultancy. "It's been three years now, but it still feels like a dream," Aguirre said. Coline Aguirre ...

NOSTALGIC TRAIN, a “heartrending, mysterious first-person adventure / walking simulator” set in the Japanese countryside, will launch for PC via Steam on June 13 in Japan for 2,000 yen, developer ...

I was recently asked if it is better to move to the countryside in order to learn real Japanese. My answer was, "Wakaran!" ("I don't know!") I moved to a small island in the Seto Inland Sea in the ...

Following a Chinese blogger's constant praise of Japan's countryside, a large number of netizens on Chinese social media have responded by posting photos of their rural hometowns, showing tidy streets ...

Coline Aguirre first began to imagine her future during a high school exchange program in Japan a decade ago. Aguirre, who was born in Paris but moved around a lot as a child, spent a year studying in ...