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  2. Nagoro - Wikipedia

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    The village has become a tourist attraction [2] [9] and is now known as Nagoro Doll Village. [1] [8] The nearby Nagoro Dam was completed in 1961 and is used for hydropower generation. [10] In 2020, the village was featured in the final episode of James May: Our Man in Japan, where a scarecrow based on James' likeness was made for him.

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

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    NAGORO, Japan (Reuters) - Tsukimi Ayano made her first scarecrow 13 years ago to frighten off birds pecking at seeds in her garden. The life-sized straw doll resembled her father, so she made more ...

  4. There's a town in Japan where over half the residents are ...

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    Roughly 115 dolls are scattered around 'Scarecrow Village,' with some even propped up as students at the local school. There's a town in Japan where over half the residents are actually life-sized ...

  5. Scarecrow - Wikipedia

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    Circle of scarecrow children at Joe's Scarecrow Village. Joe's Scarecrow Village in Cape Breton, Canada, was a roadside attraction displaying dozens of scarecrows. [4] The Japanese village of Nagoro, on the island of Shikoku in the Tokushima Prefecture, has 35 inhabitants but more than 350 scarecrows. [5]

  6. List of villages in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Geographically, a village's extent is contained within a prefecture. Villages are larger than a local settlement; each is a subdivision of rural district (郡, gun), which are subdivided into towns and villages with no overlap and no uncovered area. As a result of mergers and elevation to higher statuses, the number of villages in Japan is ...

  7. Tomonoura: A historic coastal village away from the crowds in ...

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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 ...

  8. Genkai shūraku - Wikipedia

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    Genkai shūraku (限界集落, literally limitative or limitational hamlet, also translated as marginal hamlet) is any village or hamlet within a merged town or village in Japan that has experienced depopulation and in danger of disappearing altogether, largely because half of the people living there reach the age of 65 and over.

  9. Iya Valley - Wikipedia

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    The Iya Valley was formerly divided into two designated villages, East Iya (東祖谷山村) and West Iya (西祖谷山村). On March 1, 2006, both villages merged with other local towns to form Miyoshi City. Locally, the two former villages are still referred to by their old names, "Nishi-Iya" (West Iya) and "Higashi-Iya" (East Iya).

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