On a humid June morning in Tottori Prefecture in western Japan, hundreds of would-be teachers filed into exam halls to ...

Uchiyama Seichi began re-evaluating his life in 2011. In March of that year, the Tohoku Earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan and triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people.

In Tokyo, Levi Pells, 32, was managing a small team and earning more than he ever imagined. He noticed his happiness depended on his quarterly performance.

There were a couple of noteworthy caveats. The unemployment rate increased to a four-year peak of 4.4 percent, suggesting ...

The stereotype of rural Americans “left behind” by the economy doesn’t hold water, according to a report released Thursday by Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce. The report ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

Japan’s marginal villages could be living on borrowed time as populations dwindle, but tourism is bringing respite. Here's how. Yoko Era and husband traded their office jobs for a life in rural Asuka ...

Would you live in a so-called “ghost village” if you only had to pay $500 for a house? Here in the United States, you can barely even get a studio apartment for that price. So why are these akiya ...

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