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Japan keeps shrinking; Tokyo area population falls for 1st time
The number of Japanese nationals living in the Tokyo metropolitan area shrank for the first time on record, while Japan’s overall population dropped for the 13th straight year, government ...
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Japan is trying to lure people into rural areas by selling $500 homes, but it's not enough to fix the country's 'ghost town' problem
The death and destruction forced Uchiyama, who was born in the Greater Tokyo area ... 40% of its total population — is about an hour and 15 minutes from Osaka. The area has been described ...
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City in Gifu fears losing status as ‘center of Japan’s population’
The “navel” title refers to a geographical place considered the center of the country’s population ... gravitated toward the greater Tokyo metropolitan area. Seki city officials have ...