秘鲁贝伦区的客人与群马县南牧村的婴儿互动。| AFP-时事通讯 记者福江夏子 2026年10月24日 南牧，群马县——在日本的一个雾气弥漫的山村，居民最近迎来了来自亚马逊河沿岸秘鲁贝伦区的意外来客，视此为振兴面临消亡的老龄化社区的机会。
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma prefecture. | AFP-JIJI By Natsuko Fukue AFP-Jiji Oct 24, 2026 Nanmoku, Gunma Pref. – In a misty mountain village in Japan, residents recently welcomed unlikely guests from a Peruvian district along the Amazon River, seeing a chance to revive an aging community facing extinction.
贝伦市长和两名年轻女子在前往南牧的旅途中参观了一家养老院，该村仅有1300名居民，市长等人面带灿烂笑容向老人们致意，部分老人则略显困惑地观看。
The mayor of Belen and two young women visited a care home on their trip to Nanmoku, a village of just 1,300 people in Gunma Prefecture, greeting the elderly with broad smiles as some looked on slightly puzzled.
“从我到达的那一刻起，我就开始欣赏这里的一切，”19岁的学生温迪·桑加马在去年她的家乡与该村签署友好城市协议后进行的为期一周的日本之旅中说道。
“From the moment I arrived, I began to admire everything about this place,” 19-year-old student Wendy Sangama said during a weeklong tour of Japan that followed theg of a sister-city agreement between her hometown and the village last year.