NAGI, Okayama Prefecture--Nagi earned the tag “miracle town” because its birthrate was more than twice the national average a few years ago. It has only around 5,500 inhabitants. In 2019 ...

NAGI, Okayama Prefecture--A regional fertility rate of 2.95 sounds unbelievable given Japan’s struggle with the increasingly dwindling birthrate, but it has happened here in the small town of Nagi.

Held over 58 days, the festival encompassed venues across 12 municipalities in the northern part of Okayama Prefecture—mostly in and around the small towns of Tsuyama, Niimi, and Nagi ...