Build-a-scarecrow: Those really into the scarecrows can memorialize themselves, or someone else, with Ayano's Scarecrow-Making Workshop, held every fourth Wednesday each month from April to November.

Tokyo: In the tiny village of Nagoro, deep in the mountains of western Japan, the wind howls down a deserted street with not a living soul to be seen. But yet the street appears busy, dotted with life ...

Japanese artist Tsukimi Ayano knows the best way to make friends: by creating them herself. It all started when Ayano, 67, moved back to the tiny, rural village of Nagoro on the island of Shikoku, ...

Nagoro, in Japan’s Iya Valley, has fewer than 30 human residents and more than 350 handmade scarecrow dolls — each one made by a single woman, Tsukimi Ayano, to replace neighbors who died or moved ...

Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian episode 7, titled A Storm Arrives, came out on August 14, 2024, on Tokyo MX and other networks in Japan. The episode saw Ayano ask Masachika about his ...

On the surface, Nagoro is like any other sleepy riverside village in southern Japan’s remote Iya Valley. A winding drive through the small town appears to reveal elderly residents tending to their ...

Ayano Nakamura began as child actress in the late 90s. She is mostly known from "Shall We Dance?" and "Blue".

Tokyo: In the tiny village of Nagoro, deep in the mountains of western Japan, the wind howls down a deserted street with not a living soul to be seen. But yet the street appears busy, dotted with life ...