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Once upon a time, in a remote village on one of Japan's main islands, there lived 37 people and 350 dolls. The dolls were ~ and are being ~ made by Ayano Tsukimi, one of the residents, and each is made to resemble a villager who has either died or moved away. "When I was a child," Tsukimi explains, "there was a dam here. There was a big company and hundreds of people used to live here." She herself moved away for a time, but then she returned, 11 years ago, and started making her dolls shortly after that, beginning with one that looked like her father (video):
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/short-film-showcase/dolls-replace-people-in-this-deserted-town
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