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By Edurne Morillo Tokyo, Feb 21 (EFE).- Japan has nearly 10 million abandoned “akiya” properties, either free or priced between $55,000 and $110,000, making up an investment opportunity for foreign owners looking to settle in the Asian economic and business prowess that is battling an aging population and declining growth rate. Anton Wörmann, a 31-year-old …

By Edurne Morillo Tokyo, Dec 7 (EFE).- In Japan, where birth rates have been declining for years, an initiative is giving grownups the chance to experience what it is like to be an infant for a day by visiting a café where every item and piece of furniture is oversized. The “café” hopes to boost …

By Edurne Morillo Nagi, Japan, Dec 4 (EFE).- Surrounded by forests and mountains, the town of Nagi is the scene of a less common image in Japan: numerous babies and children, in a place that has become a national reference in the face of accelerated demographic aging. While the fertility rate continues to fall year …

Edurne Morillo, Yoko Kaneko y María Roldán Tokyo, Aug 21 (EFE).- A Japanese man, who goes by the name Toco, has spent over $13,000 to fulfill his dream: turning into a Collie with a hyperrealist dog-suit that he wears all over Tokyo, startling pedestrians and other dogs in his wake. “Since I was a kid, …

By Edurne Morillo and Yoko Kaneko Tokyo, Jul 14 (EFE) – How do you live?, the latest and possibly last film by iconic animation director Hayao Miyazaki premiered in Japan Friday leaving fans with the existential question of how they will face their lives. “Kimitachi wa Do Ikiru ka”, the renowned artist’s first film in …

By Edurne Morillo Tokyo, May 22 (EFE).- Japan sought to send a pacifist and anti-nuclear message from the G7 summit in Hiroshima, the first city attacked with an atomic bomb, but several nonprofits and survivors of the bombing have criticized the statements from the gathering as insufficient.

By Edurne Morillo Tokyo, May 22 (EFE).- Japan sought to send a pacifist and anti-nuclear message from the G7 summit in Hiroshima, the first city attacked with an atomic bomb, but several nonprofits and survivors of the bombing have criticized the statements from the gathering as insufficient. “The G7 Communiqué does not call for the …

By Edurne Morillo Hiroshima, Japan, May 18 (EFE).- Okonomiyaki, a popular Japanese pancake dish, played a key role in devastated Hiroshima where it became a survival food in the aftermath of the atomic blast in 1945. The culinary classic, which is also a very popular dish in Osaka and Tokyo, comes from the Japanese words …

By Edurne Morillo Hiroshima, Japan, May 17 (EFE).- Nearly eight decades after Hiroshima, the number of survivors of the atomic bombing continues to dwindle. But a group of teenagers is keeping their memory alive through their paintings, which are inspired from conversations with the survivors. With the average age of survivors at 82, Hiroshima, the …

By Edurne Morillo Hiroshima, Japan, May 16 (EFE).- Survivors of the Hiroshima nuclear disaster called on world leaders on Tuesday to ban nuclear weapons ahead of the G7 summit to be held in the city in western Japan later this week. Seventy-eight years after an atomic bomb destroyed the city of Hiroshima, leaders of the …