The Pink Octopus and the Disappearing Towns of Japan

What a refurbished slide reveals about life in rural Japan.

I knew it was bad.

I just didn’t know it was that bad.

I’ve been reading my local newspaper, the aptly named コミュニティー新聞 Community Newspaper.

Now, the newspaper isn’t the thing that is bad, there’s usually at least one decent thing to read and then a whole bunch of classifieds.

Yet in today’s newspaper there were two things worth reading, both front page n…