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LWIF EP118: Pros and Cons of Life Outside Tokyo | Rural Japan

I usually tell stories about what life is like in Tokyo, because that’s where our family lives. But today we head out to Matsuyama in the prefecture of Ehime to find out what life in non-Tokyo, the countryside of Japan, is like. Special thanks to Sherry for showing me around Matsuyama/Ehime. Check out her YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/SherryBerryinEhimeENG Sources http://cornerstonemag.net/urbanization-city-growth/ http://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/ https://population.un.org/wup/Country-Profiles/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/08/japan-rural-decline/537375/ https://www.mof.go.jp/english/pri/publication/pp_review/fy2017/ppr14_01_06.pdf https://www.tofugu.com/japan/japanese-countryside-emptying/ https://apjjf.org/2017/06/Matanle.html https://scholarship.depauw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1049&context=studentresearch Matsuyama – By Reggaeman – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10946362