1. No community in Japan choose to stop existence in their living place before Ogama.
2. With the decrease of rural population in Japan, many villages and their cultures are likely to disappear.
3. Both the rural areas and urban areas in Japan haven’t recovered from the long recession.
4. Rural officials say they can collect few taxes because of the backward economic development.
5. Many municipalities combined to solve the financial problem and it worked.
6. According to Bunzo Mizushiri, there is no monk who cleanses himself before climbing Takatsume now.
7. The forest expands to the area where used to be cultivated land and the ruins of abandoned houses in Ogama.
8. Harue Miyasaka Knew that her house would also ________.
9. Miyasaka proposed to build _______ in Ogama, which attracted Takeei’s interst.
10.Only if ________, can the villages that have reached their limits survive, according to Kenichi Taniguchi.


