Young consultant Miai Kobayashi is striving to breathe new life into struggling communities.
The 29-year-old quit a job pushing paper in an elite stream of the civil service and joined a think tank, where she took on the task of rejuvenating areas saddled with aging and shrinking populations. This is a problem Japan has, in spades.
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