Writer Hannah Kirshner first moved to Yamanaka Onsen to better understand its craft culture. Almost 10 years later, she’s found a community and made a home.

Old, abandoned homes in rural areas of Japan are cheap Over the past seven months, they've been living in and renovating the house.

"It matched all my expectations. It was huge, maybe a bit too huge," Coline Aguirre said about the house she bought in Japan.

City, or country? Which affords the better life? Josei Seven (Dec 2) takes up the ancient question – without answering it, for there is no final answer, but there are stark differences between the two ...

Before arriving in Japan, I had only lived in the suburbs of the San Francisco Bay Area, where I grew up, or my rural college ...