:jesus-christ: .
Tag places you've been to.
I got Sacramento, Tuscan, and New York. That's Kochi, Kuwana, and Tokyo.
The important thing to understand here is the sheer scale of destruction suffered by the peoples of Asia at the blood soaked hands of America.
Nah I think it is mainly depopulation due to aging and the 90s boom leading people to abandon rural towns to live in the city. In the west at least there is usually some redevelopment but not in Japan. It is getting worse real ghost towns exist in Hokkaido for example.
And old people can't or wont leave, so they would die in the inaka, often alone.