Japanese youths make 'mago-turn' to live near grandparents

Tokyo

AN increasing number of young people from cities are migrating to provincial areas to live in the same town as their grandparents.

The "mago-turn" trend - mago means grandchild in Japanese - is similar to the "U-turn" trend when people return from cities to live in their home towns, and the "I-turn," when people migrate to rural areas different from where they grew up.