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  2. Inunaki Village - Wikipedia

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    The Inunaki Village (Japanese: 犬鳴村, Hepburn: Inunaki-mura, lit. ' Howling Village ') is a 1990s Japanese urban legend about a fictional village-sized micronation that rejects the Constitution of Japan. The legend locates the village near the Inunaki mountain pass in Fukuoka Prefecture. A real Inunaki Village, not connected to the legend ...

  3. Hidden village - Wikipedia

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    The hidden village is a separate land that is imagined to be deep in the mountains, in the mound hole, and in the far upper stream of the river, and at the bottom of the abyss. It is said that it is a Hinden Hyakushomura, but the hidden village is a peaceful world without any sorrow, and there is a flow at times different from the human world.

  4. Sasuke Inari Shrine - Wikipedia

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    According to Kamakura Historian Shimizu Ginzō, the hidden village that was adjacent to the shrine was the dwelling of a band of people that were the antecedents to the Ninja. The remoteness and easy defensibility provided the necessary seclusion to conduct their activities which included elimination of enemies of the Kamakura shogunate. [3]

  5. Tomonoura: A historic coastal village away from the ... - AOL

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    In Japan, swallows are considered good luck. But it’s not just luck that has protected Tomonoura , a village in Hiroshima prefecture that has occupied prime real estate on the coast of the Seto ...

  6. Category:Villages in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Category: Villages in Japan. 27 languages. ... Hidden village This page was last edited on 30 May 2019, at 13:00 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...

  7. Japanese haunted towns - Wikipedia

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    Ōbokeyōkai Village in the Tokushima Prefecture has developed a yōkai culture. Legend has it that yōkai inhabit the village. Some 15,000 people were identified as residents in the 1950s. However, reports regarding yōkai sightings and yōkai-related phenomena led to a mass exodus. In 2013, the village was home to only 4,000 permanent ...

  8. Vanishing village in Japan is now home to more scarecrows ...

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    Its graying community is a microcosm of Japan, whose population has been falling for a decade and is projected to drop from 127 million to 87 million by 2060. At 65, Ayano is among the youngest ...

  9. Historic Villages of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama - Wikipedia

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    Room plans were either a four-room square, or a larger six-room structure, plus their earthen-floor space. The Shinto shrine housing the village deity is located on high ground near the village centre and is nowadays surrounded by Japanese cedar trees. A Buddhist temple of the Jodo Shinshu sect forms the religious centre of the community. [1]: 51