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Shouya Grigg’s successful brand of boutique accommodation on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido only goes to show that remoteness is a highly desirable thing.
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Hirado City in Nagasaki Prefecture is the unlikely recipient of one of the largest amounts of out-of-town donations in Japan.
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A new winery in Fukushima Prefecture is helping to revive the local fruit-farming industry while bringing delicious new products to the Japanese table.
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Okinawa Prefecture is re-establishing itself as a major international logistics hub.
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A food-processing technology developed by a Japanese confectioner more than fifty years ago is now utilized in more than 120 countries around the world.
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What is it about Itoshima in Fukuoka Prefecture?
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Architect Toshio Yada, who divides his time between Tokyo and Okayama, works on regional revitalization, making use of regional cultural resources.
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Inspired by the hit 2016 animated movie Your Name, tourists have been flocking to Hida in Gifu Prefecture.
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An innovative mud conditioning technology is being employed on a wide scale in reconstruction work following the Great East Japan Earthquake.
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Briton Richard Halberstadt is enjoying a new life in northeastern Japan as director of the Ishinomaki Community and Information Center.
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Saki Chikaraishi is working to create a new relationship between people and towns through the colorful medium of knitting.
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230 millions years in the making, Ogatsu slate suzuri are the calligrapher’s inkstone of choice.
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At Dewa Sanzan in Yamagata Prefecture, the ancient practice of ascetic mountain worship continues to be passed on from generation to generation.
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