PopulationProjectionsforJapan(2023revision) TheNationalInstituteofPopulationandSocialSecurityResearchhasconductedanewnationalpopulationprojectionexerciseandpublishedtheresultsas“PopulationProjectionsforJapan(2023revision).”Theprojectionsarebasedonthelatestdatafromthebasiccompletetabulationonpopulationfromthe2020populationcensusand...
The population shrank in the three major metropolitan areas--Tokyo, Kansai and Nagoya--although the city of Tokyo saw an increase for the first time in three years, driven by people moving to the capital from elsewhere in Japan. Meanwhile, the population of foreign nationals living in Japan i...
All data obtained from vital statistics and the fertility survey indicate that the population of Japan will have a heavy burden of increasing old ages in the near future, because the attitude toward the number of children among Japanese women is to have fewer children (but not to have no chil...
it is clear that Japan recommends stricter limiting of weight gain during pregnancy, compared to other developed countries13,14. In this context, pregnant Japanese women are expected to weigh themselves at every perinatal check-up and receive dedicated attention from their care provider during the en...
We find evidence for a major influx of Danish ancestry into England; a Swedish influx into the Baltic; and Norwegian influx into Ireland, Iceland and Greenland. Additionally, we see substantial ancestry from elsewhere in Europe entering Scandinavia during the Viking Age. Our ancient DNA analysis ...
Population-based surveys were conducted three times in the same region, in 1985, 1999, and 2006, at Fujieda City, Shizuoka, Japan, and the results were reported previously. We compared the results of these surveys to reveal the time trend in the prevalence of adult asthma. Although the ...
The trend of the dose–response curves fitted for each contig is indicated by the colour code (bell: bell-shape, U: U-shape, dec: decreasing (downregulated), inc: increasing (upregulated) Full size image We then applied a non-supervised machine learning methods based on weighted gene co-...
Trend analysis of cancer incidence in Japan using data from selected population-based cancer registries. Cancer Sci 2012;103:360- 8.Katanoda K, Ajiki W, Matsuda T, et al. Trend analysis of cancer incidence in Japan using data from selected population-based cancer registries. Cancer Sci 2012;...
Shikoku, the smallest of the four main islands of Japan. It is separated from Honshu by the Inland Sea (north) and the Kii Strait (east) and from Kyushu by the Bungo Strait (west). Shikoku is also one of the country’s regions, which includes nearby isla
the story of the Yokoboris. Kentaro’s birth was unusual not only because the village had waited so long, but because his parents had moved to the countryside from the city – bucking the decades old trend in which the young increasingly plump for the 24/7 convenience of Japanese city ...