Violet Pacileo left her job in finance in Tokyo to open a CrossFit gym in rural Japan. She discovered moving to the countryside didn't necessarily mean a slower pace of life, she said. She said that ...

While working as a teacher in Atlanta, Georgia, Lexi Smith, 24, found herself dreaming of seeing more of the world and living a simpler life. "I wasn't quite loving the school system from having an ...

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A US veteran moved to Japan and bought an abandoned house, or akiya, with his wife.Coco Lencho Japan. Lawrence Covian, 53, and his wife moved to Japan from the US in 2017. They bought an abandoned ...

This story originally published in the September 1922 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. Of all the poetic titles applied by the Japanese in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coline Aguirre bought a traditional house in the Japanese countryside when she was 24. She left France and moved to Japan alone to ...

Experience slow living in the Japanese countryside. Live in the Japanese countryside surrounded by nature. Fix up an old house, make the yard nice, grow your own crops, and become self-sufficient.

"Every year, families across Japan return to their hometowns to honor their ancestors during the Obon festival, one of the country’s most significant and cherished traditions. This festival, which has ...