TOKYO -- The single-pole concentration of Japan's population in the Tokyo metropolitan area has resumed accelerating now that the impact of the coronavirus has weakened. Yet people continue to leave Tokyo itself, especially those of child-rearing age, for its three neighboring prefectures because of soaring housing costs.
The net flow of people into the Tokyo metropolitan area is a long-term trend, but Tokyo itself is not luring all generations equally and has lost families with young children.
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Younger families leaving Tokyo for Japanese capital's neighbors
Increase in new homes arouses concern about glut in three prefectures
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