Regional Decline and Depopulation
Regional Decline and Depopulation
Structural impact of demographic change on communities, including municipalities at risk of extinction, Tokyo-centralization, and the vacant house crisis.
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Insights & Analysis
Vote-Weight Disparity Passes 2x in 16 Districts — Japan's Last Redistricting Started at 1.999
Policy AnalysisRegionalPopulationJapan
Insights & Analysis
28 Firms Raided Over Suspected Bid Rigging in Condominium Repairs — Japan Named the Method Nine Years Ago and Published the Going Rates From 944 Projects
HousingPolicy AnalysisSocial IssuesJapan
Insights & Analysis
The Linear-Shizuoka Agreement Now Carries a Clause to Halt the Work — How a Century-Old Memory of Water Loss Became Procedure
RegionalEnvironmentPolicy AnalysisJapan
Insights & Analysis
46% of New Vets Go to Pets, 11% to Livestock — Japan Isn't Short of Vets, They're Maldistributed
Labor & EmploymentPolicy AnalysisRegionalJapan
Insights & Analysis
Bear Injuries Hit a Record 216 in Japan — Depopulation Has Emptied the Hands That Tended the Boundary
RegionalEnvironmentPolicy AnalysisJapan
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Kumamoto's Car Society Cannot Be Solved by Roads — Transit's Downward Spiral and Planning Backward from Where People Live
RegionalDemographicsPolicy AnalysisJapan
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Repairs Keep Surfacing After You Buy a Kominka — The Information Gap Born of Inheritance and Aging
RegionalDemographicsHousingPolicy Analysis
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Inherited Forest Land Without Clear Boundaries — Negative Assets and the Making of Owner-Unknown Land
RegionalDemographicsEconomyPolicy Analysis
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School Pools Are Disappearing — How Fiscal Gaps Between Municipalities Become Gaps in Learning to Swim
EducationChildrenRegionalPolicy Analysis
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Farm Machinery That Runs Only Days a Year — The Structure That Keeps Individual Ownership Locked In
RegionalDemographicsEconomyPolicy Analysis
Labs
Soundproofing Subsidies Choose Their Roads — The Disparity Structure of the Roadside Housing Soundproofing Program
Traffic NoiseNoise RegulationEnvironmental JusticeHousing
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Furusato Tax Points Ban: A Six-Month Review of System Purpose and Return-Gift Competition
Hometown TaxTaxationRegional
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The 'Can't Earn a Living' Problem in Japan's Rural Migration Push — A Career-Design Vacuum in Regional Revitalization Policy
RegionalDemographicsLabor & EmploymentWages
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Kamakura Overtourism: Treating Tourist Destinations as Public Goods
TourismRegionalPolicy AnalysisUrban Policy
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Japan's 2025 Births Fall to 671,000 — 15 Years Ahead of Projections, Even as Marriages Rose
PopulationDemographicsPolicy AnalysisEconomy
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The Fragility of 'One Million Furusato Residents': Can Numerical Targets Qualify as EBPM?
RegionalLocal Structural IssuesPolicy AnalysisEBPM
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Where Did 1.3 Trillion Yen in Hometown Tax Go? — The Redistribution That Never Reaches 'the Regions'
Local Structural IssuesHometown TaxEconomyRegional
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Four Furusato Tax Reforms: Who Is the Redistribution Engine Really For?
Hometown TaxTaxationLocal Structural IssuesPolicy Analysis
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Who Gets the ¥9.5 Trillion? — Questioning Japan's 'Tourism Nation' Without Residents
Local Structural IssuesTourismOvertourismEconomy
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Regional Revitalization 2.0 and the '10 Million Related Population' Target: Are Means and Ends Reversed?
RegionalPopulationPolicy AnalysisLocal Structural Issues
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Kyoto's Vacant House Tax and Its National Ripple Effect — Can Tax Policy Reduce Empty Homes?
HousingTaxationPolicy AnalysisJapan
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The Disappearing Workforce of Local Government — What Halved Exam Ratios and Surging Youth Resignations Reveal
Local Structural IssuesLabor & EmploymentRegionalPolicy Analysis
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The Year of the Fire Horse 2026 and the Truth Behind Japan's Declining Birthrate: When Superstition Has No Room Left to Move
PopulationDemographicsPolicy AnalysisSocial Issues
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The Core of Japan's Declining Birthrate Is Not Childcare Support: Interrogating the Generational Distribution of 114 Trillion Yen in Social Security
Local Structural IssuesPopulationWelfareEconomy
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Japan's 1.13 Fertility Rate — The 2015 Turning Point When Married Couples Stopped Having Children
PopulationDemographicsPolicy AnalysisEconomy
Insights & Analysis
The Structure Behind 9 Million Vacant Houses — Why Japan Can Neither Demolish Nor Utilize Them
HousingPopulationPolicy AnalysisJapan
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Fertility Rate 1.15 on a ¥7.3 Trillion Budget: Evaluating Three Years of Japan's Children and Families Agency
WelfareEconomyPolicy AnalysisPopulation
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A Country Where Politicians Win Without Elections — 26% Uncontested and 2,000+ Seat Shortfalls Question the Meaning of "Representation"
Legal & RegulatorySocial IssuesJapanPolicy Analysis
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The Paradox of Population Decline and Record Tax Revenue — How Much Has Per Capita Tax Burden Increased?
TaxationEconomyPopulationPolicy Analysis
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A Data Analysis of the 744 'At-Risk' Municipalities — The Structure That Tokyo Siphons
PopulationSocial IssuesJapanPolicy Analysis
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Generational Pension Disparities Visualized by Birth Year — What Differs Between Those Born in 1940 and 2000
PopulationEconomySocial IssuesJapan
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Tokunoshima TFR 2.25, Higashiyama 0.76 — Mapping Birth Rates Across 1,741 Municipalities
PopulationSocial IssuesJapanData Visualization
Labs
Corporate Hometown Tax at ¥63.1 Billion — How Personnel Dispatch Is Reshaping Public Asset Regeneration
PPP/PFIPublic PolicyPublic Asset RevitalizationRegional
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Structural Analysis of Local Government 'Extinction' — 744 Municipalities Face the Critical Point of Population Decline and Fiscal Crisis
RegionalDemographicsJapanPolicy
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How Much Is Japan's Child Support Levy? The Burden on Singles and Childless Households
WelfarePolicy AnalysisInequalityPopulation
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15 Years After 3/11, 2 Years After Noto — The Structural Limits of Japan's ¥41 Trillion Recovery
DisasterPolicy AnalysisPopulationJapan
Insights & Analysis
Renewable Energy and the Regional Economy — New Inequalities Born of the Energy Transition
EnergyEnvironmentRegionalEconomy
Debates
Does DX Promotion Narrow or Widen the Regional Gap?
DebateDigital & AIRegionalInequality
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Population Decline and the Concentration in Tokyo — Reading the Mechanics of Regional Disappearance Through Structure
DemographicsRegionalJapanPolicy Analysis
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Can 'Kankeijinko' Solve the Sustainability Problem of Student Community Work?
CommunitySocial ParticipationEducationPopulation
Insights & Analysis
Behind Japan's 11.5% Child Poverty Rate: The 44.5% Single-Parent Reality
Social IssuesInequalityWelfarePopulation