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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.
In the 1980s, a new home in Japan cost 5-8 times the annual income of the average Japanese, and 2-3 times that of an average American. [9] The typical loan term for Japanese homes was 20 years, with a 35% down payment, while in the United States it was 30 years and 25%, due to differing practices in their financial markets.
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.
Japanese prefectures by annual population change, in percent (Oct 1, 2021 to Oct 1, 2022). Japanese prefectures by population density (2022). The tan color means between 0 and 99 per km2. This is a list of Japanese prefectures by population. For details of administrative divisions of Japan, see Prefectures of Japan.
Danchi buildings built in the 1960s (right), situated across a street from modern apartment blocks built in the 2000s (left) Many danchi were built in the 1950s through 1970s with building codes and seismic standards of that time. Buildings from those periods are considered outdated and often have various accessibility issues.
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]
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 .