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, …
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