Japan To Embark On An Era Of "Mass Foreign Immigration" | ZeroHedge
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Thats the entire country.
You say that but it makes me wonder why people choose to congest Tokyo so hard. Any sufficiently strong tsunami or earthquake would cripple the country if it hit Tokyo. Putting eggs in one basket and all that.
It's basically a "critical mass" thing. People move to the city, form "communities", then the government services move there, then the corporate headquarters move in, the financial markets form, and then the cycle continues.
It's the same with New York, LA, Sydney, Melbourne, London, Paris, Seoul. Cairo, Jakarta, Auckland, Bangkok, Mexico City, etc.
Essentially those cities reached the point of "urban critical mass" where they became "the centre of everything", and nowhere else could compete, and then it becomes "why would you live anywhere else?"
In the case of Tokyo and Mexico City (and a couple of the others), though, they've literally run out of land, and started building on the water, which, as you say, will inevitably lead to disaster in the future...
Personally I think Sapporo looks much nicer, at least in summer. But Tokyo is pretty much all many foreigners think of, when they think of Japan, unfortunately...