Chiiori
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Chiiori is the name of an Edo period minka farmhouse in the Iya Valley, Western Tokushima, Japan. Purchased by Alex Kerr in the 1970s, the house is now home to staff members of the Chiiori Project, a non-profit organization based in Iya Valley that is working toward solutions to the problems surrounding depopulation in rural Japan.