The 2,519 mostly graying residents of Hime subsist on fishing.Credit...Ko Sasaki for The New York Times HIME ISLAND, Japan — If Marxism had ever produced a functional, prosperous society, it might have looked something like this tiny southern Japanese island. At first glance, there is little to set Hime (pronounced HEE-may) apart from the hundreds of other small inhabited islands that dot the coas
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