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The Japanese village where life-sized dolls outnumber humans 10 to 1 — and the woman who’s been making them since 2003
Nagoro is a village deep in the Iya Valley on Shikoku island in Tokushima ...
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The Japanese village where life-sized dolls outnumber human residents 12 to 1 — and the woman behind all 350 of them
Nagoro, in Japan’s Iya Valley, has fewer than 30 human residents and more than 350 handmade scarecrow dolls — each one made by a single woman, Tsukimi Ayano, to replace neighbors who died or moved ...
"You see a doll, I see a baby that I never got to hold,” a woman said after receiving criticism for having a reborn doll Sam Gillette is a Staff Writer on the Human Interest team at PEOPLE. She first ...
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