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Speaker 1: It's cut and fly, Fly fly on the cutting room floor.

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Speaker 2: We didn't get round to talking about the Japanese village

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Speaker 2: that's struggling with low population. Have come up with an

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Speaker 2: ingenious way, as the Japanese do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll tell you where it is first before we

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Speaker 3: get to the ingenious way that they're solving this problem.

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Speaker 3: This is in the hamlet of Ichinono. It has less

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Speaker 3: than sixty residents and only one child. What happens is

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Speaker 3: that once the kids get old enough, they encourage their

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Speaker 3: children to attend college, usually an hour.

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Speaker 1: Away in Kyoto.

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Speaker 3: So there's less than sixty residents as I said here,

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Speaker 3: and many of them are elderly. What they have done

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Speaker 3: to create a feeling of community and a feeling of

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Speaker 3: a bustling society is they have these life size stuffed

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Speaker 3: mannequins that sit on their porch, sh that sit in parks.

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Speaker 1: They're all over the places.

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Speaker 3: Someone said, we're probably outnumbered by puppets. So some pictures

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Speaker 3: here that I'm looking at, what do you reckon? They're

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Speaker 3: like stuffed toys but big.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I was hoping that they would be sort of human esque,

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Speaker 1: but oh no, they're not. Like, yeah, were you you

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Speaker 1: what no, Well, they've.

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Speaker 2: Got like mini mouse sitting on a chair and bedraggled

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Speaker 2: mini mouse. It looks like one of those big dolls

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Speaker 2: that garbas put on the front of the trucks, you know,

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Speaker 2: the gar base. They find a doll in the bin

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Speaker 2: and then they put it on the front of the truck.

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Speaker 2: It always looks a bit worse for wet.

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Speaker 1: It's very big.

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Speaker 3: But as that's next to a sort of a child

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Speaker 3: size one, and then there's two adults and a child

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Speaker 3: in this other one.

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Speaker 1: That funny looking stuffed. You know, that woman there with

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Speaker 1: their blood is real. That's a person. That's a person.

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Speaker 2: Looks like she's been on the front of a garbage truck.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting.

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Speaker 3: The Prime Minister has said that he's vowing to help

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Speaker 3: build up these rural areas because this is a big

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Speaker 3: problem for Japan, and this is a big problem for

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Speaker 3: countries that don't have immigration. Japan doesn't allow many immigrants,

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Speaker 3: and they are the second oldest population in the world,

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Speaker 3: so that's what's happening here. They're going to run out

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Speaker 3: of young people, so they're going to be populated by

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Speaker 3: these enormous life size does.

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Speaker 2: Some Japanese have more population per square inch of kilometers, and.

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Speaker 3: They've got a very big population. But in these rural

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Speaker 3: areas there's nobody. There's nobody, and the often immigrants will

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Speaker 3: move to rural areas and keep them going, so there's

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Speaker 3: no that's just not happening here. So it's actually quite sad.

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Speaker 3: So they're replicating a sense of community. For example, if

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Speaker 3: that happened where you live, you'd have to get all

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Speaker 3: these people to sit around and drink with you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I've got all that now, all these dumb

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Speaker 2: puppets drinking around me.

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Speaker 3: That's what they call you. You shouldn't put your hand up

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Speaker 3: their bombs. That's the muppets.

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Speaker 1: I'll have to get like a little for you. There'd

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Speaker 1: be a little troll doll just sitting there, Blanc.

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Speaker 3: I'd have to replicate book Club with a whole lot

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Speaker 3: of puppets.

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Speaker 2: There you go, the Booze and Bitch and.

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Speaker 1: Book now with added puppets.

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Speaker 2: And now you can choose all the books you want

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Speaker 2: to read, all your fairy porn that the girls.

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Speaker 1: Don't want to read. I'd be king of the words.

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Speaker 2: They want to read smarty books, but you just want

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Speaker 2: to read.

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Speaker 3: The juice I haven't introduced them to my fairy smart yet.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's my mission for next year, the Booze and

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Speaker 1: Bitch and book Club.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but until that time, you just stick to yourself.

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Speaker 1: Reading yourself, reading myself, reading the books yourself. I will.

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Speaker 3: I've finished a series of four of them. I'm giving

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Speaker 3: myself a breather. Yeah right, you know, just a breather

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Speaker 3: before I go back. How saucy are the scenes very

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Speaker 3: very you know what they're saying though people laugh at this,

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Speaker 3: but they these books have brought women back to reading.

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Speaker 1: That's good. It is good. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It's like Penthause Forum the letters to Penhase four in

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Speaker 2: it for the articles.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, got me reading. I never thought it had happened

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Speaker 1: to me. I remember you had some staple burn. It's

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Speaker 1: very painful to get staple burn. There, I tell you.

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Speaker 1: That's a front. Dan, I'm back tomorrow for morning. I'm

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Speaker 1: seeing a man that's coming on the floor.