A Japanese village struggling with a low population created life-sized dolls to mimic the feeling of a bustling society. The ...

A dwindling Japanese village has found a creative way to combat loneliness ... "We're probably outnumbered by puppets," said ...

The small population of a village in Japan is now "outnumbered by puppets ... the villagers have used old clothes, fabrics and mannequins to stitch together a new population of puppets.

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 ...

Riding his tricycle with cheerful abandon, Kuranosuke Kato is the only child in his tiny, depopulated Japanese village overrun by ... is extinction," said 74-year-old Ichiro Sawayama, head of ...

A dwindling Japanese village has found a creative way to combat ... "We're probably outnumbered by puppets," said Hisayo Yamazaki, an 88-year-old widow, told Agence France Presse (AFP).

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 ...

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 ...