So in Ichinono, the dolls are injecting some youth. Amid the overgrown greenery, a puppet girl wearing a sweater hood sways ...

A LONELY Japanese village has become overrun by creepy life-size puppets who have been slowly replacing the residents. Eerie ...

With only one child in a village of 60 people, residents of Ichinono create hand-crafted dolls to combat loneliness.

Each baby was shown a doll and truck inside a puppet-theatre box for two 10-second intervals. Eye-tracking technology measured how many times and for how long the babies focused on each object. The ...

These dolls - often made of unwanted old fabric ... One picture shows a little girl puppet in a pink helmet riding a bike across some grass. As a family also appears to have been created with ...