https://japan.stats-viz.org/ Visual explanations of official Japanese statistics, published in English, Japanese and Traditional Chinese. Researched and written with AI assistance; every figure is drawn from a named government table. en stats.visualize@gmail.com Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://japan.stats-viz.org/stories/foreign-incarceration/ https://japan.stats-viz.org/stories/foreign-incarceration/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The foreign population nearly doubled and foreign prisoner numbers fell 57%. So did everyone else's. Three views of the government's own figures, with the numbers that cut both ways left in. https://japan.stats-viz.org/stories/school-health-growth/ https://japan.stats-viz.org/stories/school-health-growth/ Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Japanese schoolchildren have been measured every April since 1900. The record shows 12.8 cm of growth, eight years the war erased, and a plateau that has now lasted more than twenty years. https://japan.stats-viz.org/stories/foreign-residents-2025/ https://japan.stats-viz.org/stories/foreign-residents-2025/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Japan counted 4,125,395 foreign residents at the end of 2025, above four million for the first time. Technical intern training added 23 people that year; specified skilled worker added 105,830. https://japan.stats-viz.org/stories/fiscal-self-sufficiency/ https://japan.stats-viz.org/stories/fiscal-self-sufficiency/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Japan's prefectures together raised 41.7% of their revenue from their own taxes in FY2024, up from 32.1% in FY2000. Tokyo raised 72.2% and received no allocation tax at all; Shimane raised 18.2%. Of the ¥59.8 trillion that came in, ¥52.3 trillion was spent, a quarter of it on staff. https://japan.stats-viz.org/stories/internal-migration-2025/ https://japan.stats-viz.org/stories/internal-migration-2025/ Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Japan has recorded net migration between prefectures every year since 1954. Tokyo gained residents, then lost them for 29 years, then gained again. Eight prefectures have never gained at all. https://japan.stats-viz.org/stories/time-use-2021/ https://japan.stats-viz.org/stories/time-use-2021/ Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Japan's time use survey records how couples with a child under six spend the day. Where both parents work, the wife does 3.4 times as much unpaid domestic work as the husband, and his hours barely change when she is not employed. https://japan.stats-viz.org/stories/insured-pay-2025/ https://japan.stats-viz.org/stories/insured-pay-2025/ Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Government insurance registers show the distribution of standard monthly remuneration by age, plus averages by prefecture and industry. https://japan.stats-viz.org/stories/private-salary-2024/ https://japan.stats-viz.org/stories/private-salary-2024/ Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The National Tax Agency's 2024 private-sector salary survey, with salary-band filters and an estimated percentile. https://japan.stats-viz.org/stories/foreign-workers-2025/ https://japan.stats-viz.org/stories/foreign-workers-2025/ Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Official notifications show where employers reported foreign workers, which industries employ them, and how the total changed through October 2025.