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Although Japan's total population has been dropping since 2009, capital Tokyo has defied the trend, attracting young workers from all over the country. Japan property funds feel pinch as Tokyo ...
Consider for example Japan. As the table below shows, even though Japan's population declined 2.0% during the period 2012-2022, its per capita GDP, a rough approximation of the overall productivity of the Japanese people, rose by about 7.5%, a much greater increase than the 2.0% decrease in its population.
The number of Japanese citizens decreased by 801,000 to 122,423,038 in 2022 from a year earlier, which was the most severe decrease and the first time all 47 prefectures have suffered a decline since the launch of the poll in 1968. The nation's population reached 128,057,352 Japanese people by early 2010.
Japan is facing a population crisis—so Tokyo, its largest city, will try to solve the problem with something new: a four-day workweek. Starting in April, the Tokyo Metropolitan government, one ...
Tighter definitions for Greater Tokyo do not include adjacent metropolitan areas of Numazu-Mishima (approx. 450,000) to the southwest, Maebashi-Takasaki-Ōta-Ashikaga (approx. 1,500,000 people) on the northwest, and Greater Utsunomiya (approx. 1,000,000) to the north. If they are included, Greater Tokyo's population would be around 39 million.
The global decline in population should not be feared but embraced as an opportunity to rethink and reshape our economic models for greater equity and resilience. We have scant choice otherwise.
Increasing or decreasing the overall population growth rate. ... a town of 7,000 just north of Tokyo, ... Volume 32, Number 52, ...
Away from Tokyo’s city centre crowds, Annabel Grossman slows down to discover Japan’s quiet backstreets, hipster neighbourhoods and crowd-free temples Tokyo on two wheels: Why you should ...