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Utashinai was formerly a prosperous coal mining city, but its fortunes has declined greatly since the closing of the coal mines. 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
The least-populated city, Utashinai, HokkaidÅ, has a population of merely four thousand, while a town in the same prefecture, Otofuke, HokkaidÅ, 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.
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa is also the subject of the 93rd episode of the BBC Radio series A History of the World in 100 Objects produced in collaboration with the British Museum, which was released on 4 September 2010. [86] A replica of The Great Wave off Kanagawa was created for a documentary film about Hokusai released by the British Museum ...
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.
The waves destroyed the villages of Bødal and Nesdal near the southern end of the lake, killing 61 people – half their combined population – and 261 farm animals and destroying 60 houses, all the local boathouses, and 70 to 80 boats, one of which – the tourist boat Lodalen – was thrown 300 metres (1,000 ft) inland by the last wave and ...
The Japanese scientific studies of the sea began only in 1915 and became systematic since the 1920s. [12] [13] American, Canadian and French whaleships cruised for whales in the sea between 1847 and 1892. [14] Most entered the sea via Korea Strait [15] and left via La Pérouse Strait, [16] but some entered and exited via Tsugaru Strait. [17]
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