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In rural Japan, a closed school becomes a new kind of community hub

Japan in Focus

Japan’s rural population has been in decline for decades. That’s caused many towns to close schools for lack of students. But residents in the village of Takigahara transformed a former nursery school into a different kind of community gathering place.

In southern Turkey, a surf school helps earthquake survivors process trauma and loss

Lifestyle
Syrian boy looks through window at refugee camp with plants placed in yellow and white cans attached

Syrian children in Lebanon are ‘being robbed of their futures’

Syrians on the border