IT doesn’t have ANYTHING to do with how the Japanese country side it emptying out due to their demographic crash? Does it?
The fact that a countryside without humans goes feral.
>The fact that a countryside without humans goes feral.
Yeah, there are three classifications of rural settlements in Japan (fishing, farming, and lumber). The lumber villages died in the 1960s when Japan let cheap Chinese and Vietnamese cedar into the lumber market. The Japanese also deregulated a lot of their agricultural segment as well, so the farming villages are barely hanging on. The fishing villages are doing great because it’s high profit, when it used to be quite poor work.
I’d say 90% of the lumber villages are now abandoned, and you can see boar, badger, and all kinds of wild animal poop in houses that 50 years ago housed whole families.