population in japan

Japan's population of 127.3 million is shrinking by 0.14 percent annually. Nearly 70 percent of all people live in urban areas. Almost half are concentrated in three major metropolitan areas: Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya. As a result, Japan suffers from a high cost of living and a lack of affordable urban housing. Japan is 98.5 percent ethnic Japanese, with a small number of Koreans (0.5 percent) and Chinese (0.4 percent). The Ainu (an indigenous ethnic group whose habitation of Japan predates the migration of ethnic Japanese) live mostly on Hokkaido


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About 128 million people are crowded on these islands, making Japan one of the most densely populated countries in the world. (worldbookonline)