Valley of the dolls: scarecrows outnumber people in Japan village eNCA
Life-size dolls depicting schoolchildren at an elementary school which closed seven years ago as there was no one left to teach.NAGARO - 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.
It all started 16 years ago when the dexterous Ayano created a scarecrow dressed in her father's clothes to prevent birds eating the seeds she had planted in her garden. At the local school, she has placed 12 colourful child-sized dolls at desks, positioned as if part of a lively class poring over their books."Now there are no children. The youngest person here is 55 years old."
"People gradually left... It's lonely now," she said."I made more dolls as I remembered the time when the village was lively."
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