Remote Japanese town attracts "digital residents" in bid for survival
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For Japan's remote communities, the country's shrinking population is an existential crisis. Towns and villages are losing people along with the precious tax dollars that keep essential services afloat. But a former mining town that's nestled in Yamagata Prefecture's mountains has harnessed a wave of support through a "digital residency" program that's attracting the attention of other struggling localities.