Tokyo area "excessive in-migration" continues The concentration of the population will not stop, January 31 19:40
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications examined the movement of the population over the past year. Only the Tokyo metropolitan area became the “excessive move-in” area in the three major metropolitan areas, highlighting the current situation in which concentration cannot be stopped.
According to the population movement over the past year, including foreigners, compiled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications based on the Basic Resident Register, in the Tokyo area of Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, and Chiba, in-migration exceeded out-migration by 148,783 people. Excess transference ".
The number of “in-migration” has increased by nearly 9,000 from the previous year, and the total for Japanese people has been “in-migration” for 24 consecutive years.
On the other hand, in the Osaka area of Osaka, Hyogo, Kyoto, and Nara, out-migration exceeded the number of in-migration by 4097 people, and that of Aichi, Gifu, and Mie in the Nagoya area exceeded 15,017, all of which were "over-migration" Was.
By prefecture, the number of in-migration was higher in eight prefectures: Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Osaka, Fukuoka, Shiga, and Okinawa.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the trend is that the younger generation has moved into the Tokyo metropolitan area for further education or employment, and has continued to settle.
The government has stated that a comprehensive strategy for regional revitalization will balance inbound and outbound migration to the Tokyo area by fiscal 2024, but the current situation in which the overconcentration in the Tokyo area will not be stopped is highlighted. Has become.