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Bankrupt Mining Town Downsizes to Avoid Becoming a Ghost - Bloomberg

To keep from becoming a so-called ghost town—when a city ceases to function due to a precipitous decline in population and is ultimately abandoned—Yubari embarked on a drastic experiment. City officials began merging schools, slashing government jobs ...

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