As such, the urban-rural divide will create a variety of political, economic, and social issues as Japan moves forward with energy and environmental planning in the coming years.

Japan continues to face a concentration of doctors in urban areas and a serious shortage of physicians in rural regions. The government and the medical community need to go further to rectify the ...

The disproportionate weight of rural voters in Japan gives sparsely populated parts of the country more representation — and more government largess — than urban areas, perpetuating what ...

The system aims to help those in overpopulated cities to play more active roles in rural communities with shrinking populations.

The Japanese government on Friday shelved its plans to give money and encourage more women to relocate to rural areas upon marriage, after a chorus of criticism online that the move is ...

A growing body of work in family sociology reveals that family life in rural and urban regions has become more similar.

Women leave in greater numbers than men, says Hiroya Masuda, the author of an alarming report on rural depopulation. “There is a glass ceiling for women everywhere, but in rural areas it tends ...

Any attempt to close the widening gap between urban and rural areas by increasing public-works spending and subsidies from the central government will only cover up the root cause of the problem ...

Absolute income is higher in cities, of course, but given the higher cost of living in cities I’d guess that the median standard of living is roughly comparable between urban and rural areas.

The rural-urban migration trend stretches back decades before that, said Tsutsui Kazunobu, professor of regional studies at Japan's Tottori University. In 1960, there was an average of 39 ...