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June 4, 2013. Current Situation of Urbanization in Japan. Masateru HINO ( Tohoku Univ.). 1. Basic information on Urbanization of Japan. 1) Population : 128 million people (2010). 2) Area: 3780,000 square kilometers. 3) Percentage of population of densely inhabited district ( DID) :
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June 4, 2013 Current Situation of Urbanization in Japan Masateru HINO(Tohoku Univ.)
1.Basic information on Urbanization of Japan 1) Population:128million people (2010) 2) Area: 3780,000 square kilometers 3) Percentageof population of densely inhabited district(DID): 67% in 2010 Percentage of population of cities: 91% in 2010 4) Population growth of national population during from 2000 to 2010:0.9% 5) Population growth of DID’s population: 4.0%
Tokyo Yokohama Osaka Nagoya Sapporo Figure 2 Rank-size distribution of major cities in 2005 ( Source: Japanese Population Census of 2005)
2.1Background of current situation of Japanese urbanization:Demographic changes ( Source: Office for policies on cohesive society, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan)
Figure 4Changes in total fertility rate of Japan ( Source: “Vital Statistics” Statistics and Information Department, Minister's Secretariat, MHLW )
2.2Multinationalization of Japanese firms : Excess of investment overseas
3. From expansion to compactness: The case of Tokyo Metropolitan Areas Shinjyuku, 2009 ( Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/) Marunouchi ( Source: http://image.search.yahoo.co.jp/)
1) Stopping the expansion of commutingareaof Tokyo central area :Area with 10 or more percentof commuter ratio is limited to the sphere of a radius of 60 km. 1985 2005 Percentage of commuter for Tokyo 23 wards (Source: Japanese Population Census)
Spatial pattern of aging in Tokyo Metropolitan Area: Rapid proceeding in the suburb residential area 2005 1990 Percentage of people by 65 years old or more (Source: Japanese Population Census)
3) Housing Types Housing in Inner Area Housing in Suburb
4) Rehabitation in the inner area Population growth rate by distance belt in the sphere of radius of 50 km from Tokyo (source: Ezaki(2006))
Rapid growth of supplying of houses by condominium in the inner area (10,000) Share of the inner area Number of houses supplied Transition of number of houses newly supplied by condominium in Tokyo Metropolitan Area ( Source: Ezaki(2006))
4. Forwarding to a compact city: The case of Sendai City, the regional central city of Tohoku Region Sendai
2) Trend of future population in Sendai ((Thousand) Sendai Metropolitan Area Sendai City Anticipated population change in Sendai
Population changes by small areal unit in Sendai from 1995 to 2005 Population growth Station Commercial Center Spatial pattern of population change by 1 km mesh in Sendai ( Source: Japanese Population Census)
4) Shrinking in agglomeration of branch offices in regional central cities ( Person) Changes in employees working at branch offices in four regional central cities (Source: Japanese Eetablishment Census)
6) Increase of vacant rooms at office buildings in CBD of four regional central cities (%) Changes in vacancy factor of office buildings in four regional central cities ( Source: CB Richard Ellis : Japan Office Market View)
7) Spatial strategy in the master plan of Sendai City Intensive land use plan based on rail-way centered transportation network ( Source: Sendai Municipality, 2008)
5. Urban network for the sustainable vitality Types of linkages between cities Types of linkages between cities (source :Hino(2009))
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