Lone child brings hope to Japan's depopulated puppet village

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Lone child brings hope to Japan's depopulated puppet village
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PETALING JAYA: The Internet is divided on Malaysian Teo Jia Xin who killed her baby by hiding her in a cereal box in the United Kingdom, with some showing sympathy while others calling for her deportation.

Puppets in the village of Ichinono , one of the"puppet villages" in Japan created to ease the lonesome feelings due to depopulation, in the city of Tamba-Sasayama, Hyogo Prefecture. - AFP

Ishiba has called Japan's low birth rate a"quiet emergency", one that is starkly evident in places like Ichinono, a bucolic hamlet home to fewer than 60 people. Rice harvesting and sake brewing used to keep Ichinono afloat. Most families in the village used to have children, Yamazaki recalled. The couple decided to ditch urban life for the countryside as the pandemic allowed for more flexible working.

"Just by being born here, our son benefits from the love, support and hope of so many people -- even though he has achieved absolutely nothing in life yet," laughed his father Toshiki.

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