By 2060, 40% of Japan's population will be 65 or older. Such extreme population aging has not yet been experienced by any other country. How does it affect people's lives? Who will .. show full overview
By 2060, 40% of Japan's population will be 65 or older. Such extreme population aging has not yet been experienced by any other country. How does it affect people's lives? Who will support the elderly as this process unfolds? And how does it influence our perception of life and death?
In the tiny coastal community of Omuro in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, the folk performing art known as "Omuro Nanbu Kagura" has been handed down over the generations. For .. show full overview
In the tiny coastal community of Omuro in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, the folk performing art known as "Omuro Nanbu Kagura" has been handed down over the generations. For about a century, the tradition was passed from family to family, parent to child. But when an earthquake and tsunami struck in March 2011, everything Omuro's residents had held dear was gone. Kagura performers lost family members, and a key member of the local kagura group went missing.
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