Japan's Demographics 日本人口

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maxxam80

Discussion Starter · Mar 31, 2005

Hello,
Q1: Are medium to small sized cities in Japan losing population?
Q2: What is the governments policies to promote birthrate or immigration if at all?
Q3: Is the low birthrate improving or not?
Q4: Is it true that huge subsidies are paid to the rural west coast of Japan from Tokyo etc?
Q5: Your predictions as to the future of Japan and its economy?
Q6: Is the workforce getting more skilled/effcient like here in the uk?

thank you
Max

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CO2

· #2 · Mar 31, 2005

maxxam80 said:
Q6: Is the workforce getting more skilled/effcient like here in the uk?

I didn't know the British workforces are that skilled and efficient. "I applogize for the delay, but we can do nothing about it. This train is experiencing the signal failure from South Kensington area". . .

Vapour

· #3 · Apr 1, 2005

I think maxxam80 meant if Japan's workforce is getting more skilled like they are doing in the UK (= they're improving their workforce)

maxxam80

Discussion Starter · #4 · Apr 1, 2005

Well we sure are better at financial services and banking than you are CO2.

I just mean the government is baiting people like myself into higher education with benefits

CO2

· #5 · Apr 1, 2005

maxxam80 said:
Well we sure are better at financial services and banking than you are CO2.

. . . According to "Economist". :laugh:

Vapour

· #6 · Jun 20, 2005

http://www.stat.go.jp/data/nenkan/pdf/y0205006.pdf

coldstar

· #7 · Jun 29, 2005 (Edited)

thanx, but in 2003? a little bit outdated.

Anyway, within this year, rumors are that Kanagawa Pref. (Yokohama, Kawasaki, Yokosuka...) would surpass Osaka Pref. in population.

BTW, currently Japan's government designated special cities are as follows...

Sapporo
Sendai
Saitama
Chiba
Kawasaki
Yokohama
Shizuoka
Nagoya
Kyoto
Osaka
Kobe
Hiroshima
Kitakyushu
Fukuoka
(As a capital and the city the emperor lives in, Tokyo is always treated as only a special case.)

and in 2006 Sakai (in Osaka pref.), in 2007 Niigata, and Hamamatsu (Shizuoka pref.) are supposed to join in this major city club.

Among these three newcomers, Hamamatsu is one of unknown industrial great cities in Japan.
Curiously, the big motorcycle companies except Kawasaki were all born in Hamamatsu (Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki). The city also produces most of snowmobiles and marine jets in Japan. Besides, Hamamatsu is the center of Japan's musical instrument industry. Yamaha, Kawai, Roland.... Still big names are HQed in the city! Hamamatsu is another Nagoya in a sense!

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Vapour

· #8 · Jun 29, 2005

I call Hamamatsu "the Detroit of motorbikes"

Indeed amazing that all those large companies were started in a relatively small city. Another remarkable local company is Hamamatsu Photonics.

PD: I don't know if Roland has any plants in Hamamatsu, but the company is headquartered in Osaka http://www.roland.co.jp/about/outline.html

coldstar

· #9 · Jul 2, 2005 (Edited)

Roland's HQ used to be in Osaka, but it was the nominal HQ. Roland's factories and laboratories have been focus on Hamamatsu, and it has just moved its HQ from Osaka to Hamamatsu on July 1st this year at last!
Now, amazingly, all the pianos, synthesized instruments, and electronic organs in Japan are made in only Hamamatsu by the big 3 (Yamaha, Kawai, and Roland). The city also is the birthplace of Japan's TV manufacturing industry, and gastro camera (by Olympus in Hamamatsu) and aluminum wheel were invented first in the world here in Hamamatsu.
Besides, three great enterprizers (Soichiro Honda: the founder of Honda Motor, and Sakichi Toyota: the founder of Toyota Motor, Michio Suzuki: the founder of Suzuki Motor) were all born in Hamamatsu.

(New 'Hamamatsu City' was born on July 1st! The population is 0.8 million)

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Vapour

· #10 · Jul 3, 2005

Indeed Hamamatsu is amazing

Coldstar, can you provide a list of the most relevant Heisei gappei affecting major cities?

Nick

· #11 · Jul 4, 2005

Vapour said:
I call Hamamatsu "the Detroit of motorbikes"
Indeed amazing that all those large companies were started in a relatively small city. Another remarkable local company is Hamamatsu Photonics.

PD: I don't know if Roland has any plants in Hamamatsu, but the company is headquartered in Osaka http://www.roland.co.jp/about/outline.html

Thats amazing about Hammaostsu.I will have to visit there on my skywave some time.

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De Snor

· #12 · Jul 11, 2005

compared to the big European (London & Paris & Moscow) cities I would like to see the difference in how cities like Tokyo & Osaka are spread out and how is their density ?

Vapour

· #13 · Jul 11, 2005

Paris and Barcelona (city proper) are denser than Tokyo and Osaka, but most Northern European cities aren't.

pnitta

· #14 · Dec 23, 2005 (Edited)

The number of foreign residents in Tokyo (2003)

Total: 295,819
http://www.city.yokohama.jp/me/stat/daitoshi/new/h020400.html

Asia:
Korea 86,054
China 103,651
Philippine 24,334
Indonesia 2,231
India 4,927
Turkey 344
Israel 387
Thailand 4,670
Vietnam 1,336
Iran 1,114
Malaysia 3,462
Bangladesh 2,583
Others 9,756

North America:
United States 15,202
Canada 2,846
Others 704

South America:
Brazil 2,818
Peru 690
Others 1,255

Europe:
UK 6,942
Netherlands 373
France 3,892
Germany 2,044
Italy 770
Switzerland 377
Portugal 117
Belgium 276
Denmark 242
Greece 78
Ireland 419
Norway 83
Spain 444
Sweden 523
Russia 1,463
Others 2,270

Africa:2,442

Oceania:
Australia 3,668
New Zealand 771
Others 74

Stateless Residents:187

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G

· #15 · Dec 29, 2005

Very interesting......I suppose most of the African residents are South African?....

Wagahai

· #16 · Dec 30, 2005

Thanks a lot!

Shawn

· #17 · Dec 31, 2005

datilguy, Id be willing to bet that 95% of Africans in Tokyo are Nigerians. You see them all over the place in locations like Shinjuku and Harajuku, pushing clubs or hip-hop clothing stores. They pretend to be from NYC to add street cred to their sales pitches, but will readily admit to being from Lagos if you call them out on it.

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Puffdaddy

· #18 · Dec 31, 2005

I think imigrant to Japan is one of the solution to decrease population in Japan...

LordMarshall

· #19 · Jan 19, 2006

who are these stateless residents?

BermudaTriangle

· #20 · Jan 22, 2006

http://www.debito.org/

^^

T H R O W H I M O U T

:hilarious

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