page_title: List of metropolitan areas in Japan
section_title: 2005 Population Census
hierarchical_section_title: List of metropolitan areas in Japan / Population Census / 2005 Population Census
caption_attribution_description: English: Urban Employment Areas of Nagoya (yellow), Kyoto (blue), Osaka (red), ane Kobe (green) in 2015.
context_page_description: This is a list of metropolitan areas in Japan by population as defined by the Statistics Bureau of Japan and the Center for Spatial Information Service of the University of Tokyo. The region containing most of the people in Japan between Tokyo and Fukuoka is often called the Taiheiyō Belt.
context_section_description: The metropolitan areas written in bold are the 8 major metropolitan areas of Japan.
  October 1, 2005
  MMA: Major Metropolitan Area
  MA: Metropolitan Area
  Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan
caption:   Kobe MEA,   Osaka MEA, 
    Kyoto MEA,   Nagoya MEA
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