Shuttered school in Japan opens its cafeteria to community

The World

Twice a month, in the village of Takigahara in Japan, neighbors and visitors from surrounding communities gather in an old elementary school for lunch, cooked by grandmas with ingredients from the village’s fields and forests. As Hannah Kirshner reports, the school closed because of a declining birth rate, but neighbors have found new ways to build community and celebrate the landscape.

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