Fumiaki Kaji, mayor of the merged municipality, said recent changes amounted to a simple logic of telling the countryside that it should die.
Ogama lies in a valley in a mountain facing the sea, reached by a single-lane road that winds its way through a deep green forest where foxes and raccoon dogs are spotted regularly. The road ends here.
Bunzo Mizushiri, 81 ,a historian in Wajima, said Ogama was the place where monks cleansed themselves before going up Takatusme, a sacred mountain.
After World War Ⅱ ,there were about 30 households here, each with eight or nine people. Today , three couples live in one corner of the village, and two women live alone in another corner. A small hill rises in the center, atop which stands a Shinto shrine whose gate was partly felled by an earthquake years ago.
Small streams flow from the surrounding mountains, keeping the ground here moist and covered with patches of moss. The expanding forest has begun reclaiming once cultivated land, hiding the ruins of abandoned housed, and blocking the sunlight.
Our house is still standing, thankfully, said Harue Miyasaka,the village leaders wife and,at 61, Ogamas youngest inhabitant. But when you look at the houses collapsing one after another, you understand whats ahead for your own house.
Were at a dead-end here, she said in front of her house, where the single-lane road reached its end. Our children havent come back, so theres no further growth. Well just keep getting older.
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