{"id":37780,"date":"2024-10-27T08:43:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T12:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/depopulated-village-in-japan-crafts-dolls-for-sense-of-life\/27\/10\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-10-27T08:43:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T12:43:42","slug":"depopulated-village-in-japan-crafts-dolls-for-sense-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/depopulated-village-in-japan-crafts-dolls-for-sense-of-life\/27\/10\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Depopulated village in Japan crafts dolls for sense of life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With most of the population gone, residents of one village in Japan <\/a>have come up with a novel plan to make it less lonely \u2014 replacing people with puppets.<\/p>\n

Fewer than 60 people live in Ichinono, and most of them are past retirement age as younger people have moved away for jobs or education.<\/p>\n

So, using old clothes, fabrics and mannequins, residents have stitched together their own population of puppets to keep them company.<\/p>\n

Some of puppets ride swings, others push firewood carts, smiling eerily at visitors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re probably outnumbered by puppets,\u201d\u00a0Hisayo Yamazaki, an 88-year-old widow, told the Agence France-Presse news agency.<\/p>\n

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