Independent insights into income, wages, population, household finances, and regional trends across Japan, based on publicly available statistics.
Using resident-tax data, we analyze Saitama City's taxable income per taxpayer of ¥4.07 million and explain the city's economic position compared with Saitama Prefecture overall and Tokyo.
Using resident-tax data, we analyze Kawasaki's taxable income per taxpayer of ¥4.21 million and the income structure behind a figure nearly equal to Yokohama's but below Tokyo's 23 wards.
Using resident-tax data, we compare taxable income per taxpayer in Yokohama and Tokyo's 23 wards. Yokohama is about ¥980,000 lower than Tokyo, while still ranking third among six major Kanto cities.
Using census data, we compare employment in Saitama City and Chiba City by industry and employment type and examine how the work environments differ between the two prefectural capitals in Tokyo's commuter belt.
Using census data, we compare the industrial composition of employment across six major Kanto cities. Recalculated from the same official API indicators, Tokyo's 23 wards have the highest tertiary-sector share.
Using census data, we break down non-regular employment in Yokohama, including temporary agency, part-time, and casual work, and compare it with regular employment using internally consistent published figures.
Using census data, we compare the number of unemployed people and approximate unemployment rates across six major Kanto cities, while explaining why the figures cannot simply be translated into a ranking of how easy it is to find a job.
Using census data, we analyze employment in Kawasaki by industry and examine whether the former industrial city has shifted toward a service-based economy.
Using census data, we analyze Chiba City's labor force, unemployment, industry mix, and employment types. Rather than calculating an unsupported labor-force participation rate, we focus on the employment structure directly supported by the published data.
Using census data, we analyze employment in Saitama City by industry and employment type and explain the labor structure of the economic center of Saitama Prefecture.
Using census data, we analyze employment in Tokyo's 23 wards by employment type and show how regular and non-regular work coexist in Japan's largest labor market.
Using population-movement data, we compare in-migration, out-migration, and net migration across six major Kanto cities. Yokohama has the largest net inflow in absolute numbers, while Saitama City leads relative to population.