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This is a list of metropolitan areas (都市圏, toshiken) in Japan by population as defined by the Statistics Bureau of Japan (SBJ) and the Center for Spatial Information Service of the University of Tokyo. The region containing most of the people in Japan between Tokyo and Fukuoka is often called the Taiheiyō Belt.
The University of Tokyo (東京大学, Tōkyō daigaku, abbreviated as Tōdai (東大) in Japanese and UTokyo in English [7]) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era institutions, its direct precursors include the Tenmongata ...
As of 2013, there were 86 national universities (国立大学, kokuritsu daigaku), 90 public universities and 606 private universities in Japan. [1] National universities tend to be held in higher regard in higher education in Japan than private or public universities.
Japan's population is expected to age and rapidly decline this century. Population ranked 11 out of 228 countries and territories; Population density ranked 37 out of 242 countries and territories; The World Factbook 2008 estimates Life expectancy ranked 1 out of 191 countries and territories [1] Total immigrant population ranked 20 out of 192 ...
Notes and sources: All figures issued by Japan Statistics Bureau, [9] [10] except for Metro Employment Area, a study by Center for Spatial Information Service, the University of Tokyo. Abbreviations: CF for National Census Final Data (every 5 years by JSB), CR for Civil Registry (compiled by local governments, monthly as per legal requirement ...
Tokyo is an international research and development hub and an academic center with several major universities, including the University of Tokyo, the top-ranking university in the country. [11] [12] Tokyo Station is the central hub for the Shinkansen, Japan's high-speed railway network, and Shinjuku Station in Tokyo is the world's busiest train ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... and the University of Tokyo's Hongo Campus. ... the ward has a population of 240,069 (including about 8,500 foreign residents ...
Komaba (駒場) is a residential neighborhood in the northern area of Meguro, Tokyo, Japan. Consisting of four districts, the neighborhood has a population of 6,847. [1] The neighborhood is known as a center for education being the location of a number of selective entry high schools and the Komaba Campus of the University of Tokyo.