Visiting Japan's oldest village
by editors@theworld.org (Carolyn Beeler) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6PF94)
Japan has the oldest population in the world, and the small village of Nanmoku, in the mountains northwest of Tokyo, has the oldest population on the planet. The World's Carolyn Beeler visits Nanmoku to see how demographic change is changing life there, and how the village is trying to attract new residents to keep itself alive.