Tokyo's population declines as residents continue to move to Western Japan
Tokyo's population has recently seen a net decrease as residents fled the city following the March 11 Tohoku Disaster and the nuclear emergency.
The hiring season and university enrollment schedule in Spring/Summer usually sees the Tokyo population rise. However, the statistics for June and July showed that the number of people who moved out of the Tokyo metropolitan area exceeded the number who moved into the area, causing the total population to decrease by 4,000 in greater Tokyo, and 6,400 in Tokyo alone. This is despite the thousands of new residents moving in from the Tohoku region.Read more