Population collapse in Hokkaido is pretty staggering to look at...I checked the populations of 9 cities in 1970 vs 2010
The other six I looked at: Hakodate, Muroran, Abashiri, Wakkanai, Kushiro, Kutchan
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I'll look at more cities in Hokkaido tomorrow...and look at the rest of rural Japan. I assume this is the trend in most of the country.
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Tokyo area and Osaka area are probably doing fine. Some cities are probably growing slowly or treading water, like Sapporo. The rest...
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modern western liberals celebrate the depopulation of rural areas.
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