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Chika Usui

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One day in the small village, I met many human-like scarecrows and I started taking self-portraits with them. After that, I directly talked to the only one scarecrow artist in Okuharima Scarecrow village (Himeji, Hyogo pre, Japan) and became his disciple. I’m the only scarecrow photographer & creator in the world now and as a Goodwill Ambassador for Okuharima Scarecrow village, I’m doing the best I can.

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Chika Usui · upvoted 10 items

almost 7 years ago

My 12 New Self-Portraits With A Scarecrow To Raise Awareness Of Depopulation Problems In Japan
My 12 New Self-Portraits With A Scarecrow To Raise Awareness Of Depopulation Problems In Japan

If you want more babies, you have to make it easier for women to have them. Japanese women pretty much get left to raise their kids on their own because the husbands are working such long hours. It's not a very inviting prospect, to be basically alone all the time and bringing up children.

My 12 New Self-Portraits With A Scarecrow To Raise Awareness Of Depopulation Problems In Japan
My 12 New Self-Portraits With A Scarecrow To Raise Awareness Of Depopulation Problems In Japan

Depopulation leads to massively imbalanced ageing populations. Not enough young people to support the elderly, collapsing social security systems, tax hikes, defaulting debt and civil unrest. Depopulation has to occur very slowly or very fast (flu epidemic among the elderly) to be tolerable in a society. Unequal shares of resources is a much bigger problem to the planet and human society than a large base number of people. I'm all for reducing world populations but there is a reason no individual country wants it.

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Chika Usui · upvoted 16 items

about 7 years ago

My 16 Self Portraits With Scarecrows Show The Depopulation Problems In Japan
My 16 Self Portraits With Scarecrows Show The Depopulation Problems In Japan

Yea its sad. everyone is busy working with no time for fun and sex is mainly viewed as something dirty that can only be given with money or love. There's so many dating apps but most of them are scams or for "boredom" use. Its pretty sad. guys just want casual sex but the females don't want to so they get raped. the girls don't have a courage to report and becomes paranoid of guys. This becomes more and more frequent so less and less girls want to meet or date people. it also doesnt help when the news show girls meeting guys online and getting murdered...i dont think this problem will get better any time soon, unless a bunch of famous celebrities start to voice their opinion on the matter.

My 16 Self Portraits With Scarecrows Show The Depopulation Problems In Japan
My 16 Self Portraits With Scarecrows Show The Depopulation Problems In Japan

The empty school is the saddest thing in this post.

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Chika Usui · commented on a post

about 7 years ago

I'm Fascinated By Scarecrows In Japan And I Take Self-Portraits With Them (14 Pics)
I'm Fascinated By Scarecrows In Japan And I Take Self-Portraits With Them (14 Pics)

Thank you for your comment. The shooting place is "Okuharima Kakashi no Sato". It is located in Himeji, Hyogo pre, Japan.