Two-year-old Kuranosuke Kato was the first baby in two decades for Ichinono, a tiny, depopulated Japanese village overrun by life-sized puppets. Ichinono is one of more than 20,000 communities in Japan where the majority of residents are aged 65 and above, according to the internal affairs ministry data.
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00:00I think the power of children is amazing when I go to the city, and I think I have to take care of it, but I think the people of the village also think so.
00:19I think they feel the power of children because they weren't there.
00:27If you leave it alone, it will turn black.
01:00I can't go back to any house. I have to leave the university, and I have to go to work.
01:14I can't go back to any house, so the moon is spinning.
01:30I was born in an apartment in Osaka, but no one featured me.
01:59I was born here, but I didn't do anything.
02:09I was born here, but I didn't do anything.
02:22My grandchildren come to see me from time to time.
02:42I want to love the few people I can meet in the village.