The village mentioned in the article is Kitsuki in Oita Prefecture - it's around 2 hours from Fukuoka.
If you have an iPad, you can download the Discovery Magazine app and you can read the article to your heart's content - link below. I don't think there's an android app for the magazine. Happy to send you a scanned copy of the article if you don't own an iPad - just drop me PM.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/cx-d...ry/id545892116