{
  "id": 1849100,
  "title": "Greyest Japanese village turns to Peru sister city to plug severe worker shortage",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/greyest-japanese-village-turns-to-peru-sister-city-to-plug-severe",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-19T01:41:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3364497/greyest-japanese-village-turns-peru-sister-city-plug-severe-worker-shortage"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Japan’s most greying municipality has turned to its Peruvian sister city in search of a way to reverse its population decline and address the labour shortage that together threaten its survival. The mountain village of Nanmoku in Gunma prefecture, where 65.2 per cent of residents were aged 65 or older in the 2020 census, signed a sister-city agreement with Belen in northern Peru in November,…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Mainichi",
        "title": "Japan's most graying village looks to Peru sister city for lifeline",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/japans-most-graying-village-looks-to-peru-sister-city-for-lifeline",
        "published": "2026-08-19T02:30:14.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}