How are people moving across Tohoku?
This interactive map visualizes population movement using official Japanese statistics. Switch between 2019, 2021, and 2025 to compare changes over time.
Explore Population Flow in Tohoku
Select an area on the map to examine population movement in greater detail. Municipality names remain in Japanese so they match the official data and map labels.
Population Overview
What Can You Discover?
Population change is not simply a matter of growth or decline. The map reveals movements between places and lets you compare origins and destinations at the municipal level.
Try different years and views, then look for patterns that are easy to miss in a table of numbers.
About the Data
The visualization uses the Report on Internal Migration in Japan published by the Statistics Bureau of Japan and available through the government statistics portal e-Stat.
Source
Statistics Bureau of Japan
Report on Internal Migration in Japan (e-Stat)