Are you seriously claiming that the places he visits are only temporarily depopulated because everybody is on holiday?! He's not pulling these stats out of his

Are you seriously claiming that the places he visits are only temporarily depopulated because everybody is on holiday?! He's not pulling these stats out of his ass: the town of Yubari used to have 120,000 people, and now has 9,362. This is of course extreme, but basically the entire countryside is following along the same lines. Here's a random prefecture (Aomori) on Kaso-Net, which shows the areas officially classified as "depopulated" by the Japanese government, meaning they've lost >25% of their population: http://www.kaso-net.or.jp/map/aomori.htm http://www.kaso-net.or.jp/map/aomori.htm Red means it contains parts that are depopulated, yellow means it's about to be, green means the area as a whole is already over the limit.