Kyodo News Members of nonprofit organizations are making strenuous efforts to preserve traditional Japanese structures and townscapes and develop regional communities.
About 40 volunteers are working hard to retain the townscape of the city of Komoro in Nagano Prefecture, where wholesale stores and tradesmen’s houses stood side by side along Honmachi street from the Edo Period prior to 1868 to the 1920s.
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