Japan Population
Japan Population: how many people live in Japan and where do they live?(Pictured: a Japanese shoji door) Japan is a very long, mountainous country. How many people live in Japan and where do they live? Japan is a very long, mountainous country. It is actually amazingly mountainous with mountains running virtually down the center of Japan. A British man once made a documentary highlighting the fact that most of Japan was uninhabited, alpine terrain, where you were very likely to never meet anyone. Around 90% of the country is mountainous. Yet with about 130 million people, if they don`t live in the mountains, where do they live? They are crowded into the few plains and along the coast of the country. So the cities are amazingly crowded. Tokyo is one of the largest cities in the world. I love Tokyo for its energy--the engergy of 15 million people! There is always a lot going on to say the least! Japan Census Data Tokyo: 13,000,000 There are more people within 50 kilometres of Tokyo than in ALL of Canada! Yokohama: 3,580,000 Osaka: 2.6 million Nagoya: 2.2 million Sapporo: 1.9 million Kobe: 1.5 million Kyoto: 1.5 million Fukuoka: 1.4 million Kawasaki: 1.3 million Saitama: 1.2 million Hiroshima: 1.15 million Sendai: 1 million 
An Aging Population
Japanese are having few babies. Not enough in fact to replace those who die of old age. It is a huge problem that looms over the future of Japan and affects the planning for the future.
How will we pay for the many social programs that we have now if the older people no longer work. How can a small population of younger people support the old?
Should Japan allow immigration? If so, how? In what way? Allow skilled workers, unskilled workers, the rich, the educated?
How many immigrants should Japan allow per year?
These are the difficult questions this very insular nation is facing. Back to facts about Japan From Japan population to Japan Living (home)
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