Nagoro: Japan’s Nagoro village lost most of its people. One woman replaced them with more than 350 life-size dolls | World News
Life-size dolls seated in a classroom PC: Fritz Schumann High in the mountains of Shikoku, in Japan’s Tokushima Prefecture, sits Nagoro, a village that once had over 300 residents and now has fewer than 30. What makes Nagoro unusual is not simply its decline, a familiar story across rural Japan, but what one resident chose…