This is what its like to spend the night in an abandoned Japanese Elementary school tucked into the mountains of Shikoku, ...

MINAKAMI, Gunma Prefecture--A surge in school closures exacerbated by Japan’s declining birthrate ... as a model for maximizing the potential of abandoned schools. Located in a mountainous ...

(Kyodo) KUSHIRO, Japan (Kyodo) -- Seeing vacant buildings ... with many buildings abandoned and left to go to seed due to a lack of funds for their demolition. In the city's restaurant district ...