{"id":1654,"date":"2012-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T00:00:00","slug":"fukuoka-moves-up-to-6th-biggest-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.mom\/blog\/fukuoka-moves-up-to-6th-biggest-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka Moves Up to 6th Biggest in Japan!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"post\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<\/div>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">This month (January 2012), Fukuoka moved up one place in the rankings of Japan&#8217;s biggest cities, from 7th to 6th place! We knocked Kyoto down one spot. It is thought that part of the reason was a large influx of new people moving south after the disaster last year.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/ja.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E3%81%AE%E5%B8%82%E3%81%AE%E4%BA%BA%E5%8F%A3%E9%A0%86%E4%BD%8D\">The list in Japanese is here<\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Japanese_cities_by_population\">The English page<\/a> isn&#8217;t quite so up to date, so at the time of writing doesn&#8217;t show the January figures yet.)<br \/>Fukuoka was one of the fastest-growing cities in Japan even before the disaster, and by far the fastest-growing large city. In Japan, a growth of 1.2% in the last five years is quite surprising, given the declining population! Fukuoka is comparatively a young city, with a good number of universities, and a lively culture. That&#8217;s part of what makes it a great place to attend a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.mom\">Japanese school<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>(Note that the table shows two sets of figures: \u6cd5\u5b9a\u4eba\u53e3 (houtei jinkou, legally designated population) and \u63a8\u8a08\u4eba\u53e3 (suikei jinkou, estimated population). Official figures are always slower to show actual changes in population, and estimated population figures generally give a more accurate count of the actual number of people, because legal residence in Japan depends on where a person is registered. People often don&#8217;t register straight away, and new registrations take a while to filter through to population estimates. The list is sorted by designated population first, with Fukuoka at 7th, but rest assured, we&#8217;re still number 6 for estimated population!)<\/p>\n<p>Here is the current top ten list by estimated population:<br \/>1. Yokohama, 3.7 million<br \/>2. Osaka, 2.7 million<br \/>3. Nagoya, 2.3 million<br \/>4. Sapporo, 1.9 million<br \/>5. Kobe, 1.54 million<br \/><b>6. Fukuoka, 1.48 million<\/b><br \/>7. Kyoto, 1.47 million<br \/>8. Kawasaki, 1.43 million<br \/>9. Saitama, 1.23 million<br \/>10. Hiroshima, 1.18 million<\/p>\n<p>(Tokyo is excluded as it&#8217;s not counted as a city, but rather a &#8220;special region&#8221;.)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| This month (January 2012), Fukuoka moved up one place in the rankings of Japan&#8217;s biggest cities, from 7th to 6th place! We knocked Kyoto down one spot. 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