N.b. this article links to Spike Japan, which is a very long-form blog by some literary British type guy who visits rural&#x2F;suburban Japanese towns and tells you all about how they&#x27;re nearly abandoned due to the oncoming population crisis.<p>But whenever I&#x27;ve linked his articles to someone who actually lives there, they&#x27;ve pointed out he just visited on a holiday so all the residents have left to go do something more interesting.