A man who hiked for hours to spend a day with an elderly man, living alone in a remote Japanese mountain village, has shared his unique experience to keep the story of this long-deserted village alive.
Japan enthusiast Norm Nakamura, 38, is a video creator, boat captain, and pilot in training who learned Japanese in college. He relocated from Canada to Tokyo to study the three-stringed Tsugaru-shamisen instrument under Japanese artists, the Yoshida Brothers. While researching abandoned villages in Japan, he came across the story of Kadonyu.
The Last Man
Kadonyu is a hidden village that is buried deep in the forested Ibigawa mountains of Japan’s Ibi District and is notoriously one of the most remote, hard-to-reach villages in the region. It was purchased for the building of a dam, along with seven others, decades ago and its inhabitants were paid to vacate but the village never flooded….