Kansai Has Three Official Borders That Agree on Six Prefectures
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Three official documents draw Kansai as six, eight and eight prefectures, and only six names appear on all three lists. What the rail passes cover.
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Toyama’s Foreign Households Hold 1.48 People Each, the City 2.11
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Toyama's register counts 400,027 people in 189,541 households, of which 10,932 foreign residents occupy 7,407 households, and women outnumber men by 8,975.
Fukushima City’s Air Dose Rate Fell From 1.91 to 0.10 by FY2025
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Fukushima Prefecture puts the city's air dose rate at 0.10 microsieverts an hour in FY2025, against 1.91 in 2011, and its own comparison table is from 2019.
Lake Kawaguchi Gets More Sunshine Than Tokyo and 12 Times the Snow
The agency's 1991 to 2020 normals put the lake below Tokyo in all twelve months, with 97 cm of snowfall against Tokyo's 8 cm and 87.5 more hours of sun.
Yokohama Publishes Two Populations a Day Apart, 5,190 People Apart
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The register gives 3,758,652 people at end-September and the estimate 3,753,462 on 1 October. The household gap is 112,363, and the city explains why.