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March 29th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda According to the report, in January 2012 Tokyo had a registered population of 12,686,067 while there are 6,368,485 households in the city.
The report adds that the number of people per household in Tokyo in 1957 was more than four which shows a significant demographic shift in the number of people who live alone in the Asian-Pacific country.
Experts believe the new numbers appeared as a result of fundamentals changes in marriage and family life of the Japanese people. Young people are marrying later, couples are having fewer children, married women are working outside the home and many married couples are no longer living with their parents.
“Living alone is increasing among the elderly. The reason is that there is so little living space here. When the sons or daughters get married, it becomes too cramped for everyone to live together. However, sons and daughters do tend to live nearby,” Masahiro Yamada of the Chau University told Press TV.
The report also mentions that the biggest decline in the country is with the elderly. The number of elderly living alone in the capital was about 100,000 in 1980 which raised to 620,000 in the year 2010.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says it will conduct further studies on the implications of living alone for all ages.
TNP/JR
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