There was a dwindling grove of ragged, crone-like old spruces behind it.
Hanazono has taken the bull by the horns and established the "100 Years of Learning Scholarship" program, aimed at wooing in the rapidly growing population of people over 50 to fill the gap left by the dwindling number of young students.
The mayor of a picturesque Italian town has come up with a novel solution in tackling its dwindling population figure - by paying people to move there.
It provides much-needed data about the threat to wildlife, mapping the dwindling ranges and populations of 27,600 species.
In the wake of dwindling consumer interest and a social media campaign, #grabherwallet, encouraging shoppers to boycott stores carrying Trump-related products, the brand seemed to have taken on the irremediable whiff of toxicity.
The UK sushi market is worth £69m a year, but because we're eating so much of it, tuna supplies in the oceans are dwindling.
The government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hopes the boom will ignite broader economic growth and make up for dwindling competitiveness in other industries — some of which, like consumer electronics, are now dominated by China.
"A dwindling workforce population and an aging population are inevitable in China, and a further adjustment of the family-planning policy is needed, based on consistent monitoring of births," according to the Green Book of Population and Labor 2016, which was released by the Population and Labor Economics Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences last Wednesday.
The business environment for Western retailers in China is changing very quickly and they must choose to accept dwindling profits or invest in online expansion.
Citing dwindling revenues at news organisations, the commission warns that failure to act would be "prejudicial for .
Mr Smith said that companies such as Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox, Viacom and Time Warner would look to consolidate as they face dwindling audiences and an increasingly disengaged younger generation of TV viewers.
The dwindling rate of discoveries does not mean that the world is running out of oil; in recent years most of the increase in global production has come from existing fields, not new finds, according to Wood Mackenzie, another consultancy.
Coretronic Corp, a Taiwan-based company that manufactures panels for United States tech giant Apple Inc, is halting production at one of its mainland factories due to dwindling iPad sales.
I picked my way through the dwindling crowd, the lame beggars dressed in layers of tattered rags, the vendors with rugs on their shoulders, the cloth merchants and butchers closing shop for the day.
