Japan
Japan: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.
country · population 123,000,000 (registry) · Asia · page prepared 2026-11-07
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Japan at a glance
Rolled up from the 37 regions inside Japan on this site.
Population123,000,000
registry estimate
Places inside37
1 with a full /local page
Businesses on file34,104
business register, all places inside
Companies headquartered504
in the company directory
Who represents them0
places with a /politics page
Property & employers1 · 0
/property and /employers records
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Largest places in Japan
By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.
- 1.Chiba, Japan6,278,060
- 2.Yokohama, Japan3,700,000
- 3.Shizuoka, Japan3,555,818
- 4.Osaka, Japan2,800,000
- 5.Sapporo (Hokkaido), Japan1,962,596
- 6.Kobe1,500,000
- 7.Kyoto, Japan1,450,000
- 8.Saitama1,324,854
- 9.Hiroshima, Japan1,199,391
- 10.Sendai1,098,335
- 11.Oita1,081,646
- 12.Kitakyushu902,358
- 13.Sakai826,161
- 14.Kumamoto737,543
- 15.Okayama700,940
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Inside Japan
37 regions have Japan as their parent.
- Beppu (Oita), Japan
- Chiba, Japan
- Fukuoka
- Hakata, Japan
- Hakodate
- Hiroshima, Japan
- Itsukushima, Japan
- Izumi, Japan
- Izumo-Shimane
- Kagoshima
- Kawasaki
- Kitakyushu
- Kobe
- Kumamoto
- Kyoto, Japan
- Matsuyama
- Miyazaki City
- Morioka
- Nagasaki
- Nagoya
- Obihiro
- Oita
- Okayama
- Okinawa, Japan
- Osaka, Japan
- Saitama
- Sakai
- Sapporo (Hokkaido), Japan
- Sendai
- Shimonoseki, Japan
- Shizuoka, Japan
- Takayama
- Tokyo, Japan
- Toyama
- Tsushima Island island
- Yamagata
- Yokohama, Japan
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Companies based in Japan
424 in the Research Upon company directory list their headquarters here (the first 80 shown), and 504 across Japan and the places inside it — search them all below.
areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of Japan are rolled up from every region inside it; each place inside has a page of its own, and the companies headquartered here are listed above.