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The population peaked at 46,000 in 1948, and has been decreasing every year since. Efforts to transform Utashinai from a gritty coal mining town to an alpine tourist destination have met with mixed success. The town has adopted a Swiss theme as part of its tourist-oriented strategy and many new buildings are built in the Swiss chalet style.
The least-populated city, Utashinai, Hokkaidō, has a population of merely four thousand, while a town in the same prefecture, Otofuke, Hokkaidō, has nearly forty thousand residents, and the country's largest village Yomitan, Okinawa has a population of 40,517. The capital city, Tokyo, no longer has city status.
Buildings of the Japanese government (1 C) C. City and town halls in Japan (4 P) N. National Diet (5 C, 5 P, 1 F) O. Official residences in Japan (1 C, 1 P) P.
The following list sorts all cities (including towns and villages) in the Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido with a population of more than 10,000 according to the 2020 Census. As of October 1, 2020, 55 places fulfill this criterion and are listed here.
The increasingly militaristic government insisted that major buildings be designed in a "Japanese Style" limiting opportunities for modernist design to works of infrastructure [56] such as Bunzō Yamaguchi's Number 2 Power Plant for the Kurobe Dam, (1938). [57]
KANTO, KEIHANSHIN and TOKAI are three largest metropolitan areas which have about 2/3 of total population of Japan. Out of 47 prefectures, 13 are red and 34 are green. The population of Japan has been decreasing since 2011. Only 8 prefectures had increased its population compared to 2010, due to internal migration to large cities.
The tallest building: Azabudai Hills, Minato, Tokyo, 325 m. The largest wooden building: Ōdate Jukai Dome , Ōdate , Akita , 178×157×52 m, 24,672 m³. The oldest wooden building in the world: The five-story pagoda and kon-dō of Hōryū-ji temple, Ikaruga , Nara .
Ashibetsu (芦別市, Ashibetsu-shi) is a city located in Sorachi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. As of 1 October 2020, the city had an estimated population of 12,555 and a density of 15 persons per km 2. The total area is 865.02 km 2.