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Narai-juku, a preserved Edo-period post town in Nagano -- the kind of rural community many foreign families are now calling home. Photo via Unsplash

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Raising Kids in Rural Japan: Why Foreign Families Are Choosing Akiya Life

How Japan's rural akiya offer foreign families safer childhoods, free healthcare to 18, and communities that genuinely help raise children.