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> Emphasis on Tokyo, which was basically the only place in Japan that's still growing, until it too started shrinking during COVID. A few days ago I commented

by wk_end 4y ago

> Emphasis on Tokyo, which was basically the only place in Japan that's still growing, until it too started shrinking during COVID. A few days ago I commented the opposite of this: most of Japan's major cities ("Osaka, Yokohama, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Sendai, and more"), per Wikipedia, have been growing. The inaka is shrinking, but that's part of the same migration away from rural areas that's happening across the developed world. Are you basing your claim that everywhere in the country - besides and now including Tokyo - on data that contradicts Wikipedia, or is it just intuition?

rippercushions 4y ago
In Japan the inaka is shrinking, but the cities are shrinking too. In 2021 every single prefecture except Okinawa saw net population loss: https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01310/ https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01310/ Here are the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research's latest projections: https://www.ipss.go.jp/pp-shicyoson/e/shicyoson18/t-page.asp https://www.ipss.go.jp/pp-shicyoson/e/shicyoson18/t-page.asp Virtually all municipalities in Japan, large or small, are already shrinking or will go into negative growth by 2025-2030. These 2018 projections predate COVID though, which has sped up the decline. And yes, there are a few exceptions, but they're mostly things like ski area Niseko, which boomed on foreign tourism investment, and a few towns in Fukushima that grew because people were evacuated from the reactor zone.