shrinkage parameter above its default value of 0.5 further biased the estimates towards the null (λ2(C) = 1) in causal simulations (Supplementary Data6–8). To ensure robust estimates, we focus on the 20 main binary annotations of large size (>1% of SNPs) in analyses of real traits...
The following list presents the top 20 cities worldwide in 2024, ranked by the population size of their metropolitan areas. Comparing the results to the previous editions, the only cities to reduce their size are the two cities from Japan, Tokyo and Osaka. The highest growth rates can be ...
Japan’s population shrank by 0.7 percent in 2023, although the net loss of 861,237 included a record high inflow of 329,535 foreign nationals.
We conducted a repeated online survey with the help of Macromill Inc. (Japan) (See Supplementary Methods for details). The original survey was conducted in December 2019. Since the first COVID-19 case was not identified in Japan until January 2020, data from this survey are considered baseline...
Japan Tokyo is one of the most expensive places to live in. There are also two other Japanese cities that are in the top 10 list this year: Osaka and Nagoya. Now,living in Tokyo is about three times more expensive than in Karachi,which is the least expensive city to live in among the...
OSAKA (Japan)JAPANPOPULATION dynamicsDEMOGRAPHIC changeCENSUSCITIES & townsSTRUCTURAL dynamicsAs cities adapt to new needs and challenges, their forms change in close relation to population dynamics. This article focuses on the link between population dynamics and the evolution of building h...
The Japan Prospective Studies Collaboration for Aging and Dementia (JPSC-AD) was a prospective cohort study of dementia. A total of 11,957 community-dwelling older residents were surveyed in eight sites from 2016 to 2018. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between serum hs-...
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yukioka Hospital, Osaka, Japan Masao Yukioka Matsubara Mayflower Hospital, Hyogo, Japan Tsukasa Matsubara Osaka Minami National Hospital, Osaka, Japan Shigeyuki Wakitani Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan Ryota Teshima Department of Rheum...
“We do not follow Osaka’s approach of building more such apartments,” he said. Hisamoto voiced his belief that Kobe is unlikely to see a population increase again. “Continuing to build housing despite knowing the population will decrease is essentially creating future waste,” he said. “Hi...
Lung cancer incidence rates by histologic type in high- and low-risk areas; a population-based study in Osaka, Okinawa, and Saku Nagano, Japan. We investigated lung cancer incidence by histologic type using the data from population-based cancer registries in high-risk (Osaka and Okinawa) and ...