A man who hiked for hours to spend a day with an elderly man, living alone in a remote Japanese mountain village, has shared his unique experience to keep the story of this long-deserted village alive.
Japan enthusiast Norm Nakamura, 38, is a video creator at Tokyo Lens, boat captain, and pilot in training who learned Japanese in college. He relocated from Canada to Tokyo to study the three-stringed Tsugaru-shamisen instrument under Japanese artists, the Yoshida Brothers. While researching abandoned villages in Japan, he came across the story of Kadonyu.
