Japanese cities
Over a million
Selected smaller cities or former cities of historical note
Footnotes
1. 2012 calculation from world-gazetteer.com, accessed 2/6/2013.
2. 2005 figures from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_Japan_by_population, accessed 3/25/2014.
3. Tōkyō is the largest city if treated as such. Technically it is a prefecture but not a legal city. There are 23 wards within the city that have semi-city status. Together they have 8.6 million people according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_wards_of_Tokyo, accessed 3/25/2014. Other large cities in the MMA are: Saitama, 1.2 million; Yokohama, 3.6 million; and Kawasaki, 1.4 million. These population figures are from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Japan, accessed 3/25/2014.
4. 大阪 (Ōsaka) is the largest of the centers with 2.6 million residents. The other two major cities are: 神戸 (Kōbe), 1.5 million; and 亰都 (Kyōto), 1.4 million. These population figures are from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Japan, accessed 3/25/2014.
5. Fukuoka is the larger of the centers with 1.4 million residents according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Japan, accessed 3/25/2014.
6. The combined metropolitan area was defined in 2010. The figure here is the sum of 1.6 million for 靜岡 (Shizuoka), the 2012 calculation from world-gazetteer.com, accessed 2/6/2013, and 1.3 million for 浜松 (Hamamatsu), the 2005 census figure from the Statistics Bureau of Japan, cited in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_Japan_by_population, accessed 3/25/2014.