Abstract

Of the 6,852 islands that make up the Japanese archipelago, 261 are inhabited but there are isolated islands with a total population of approximately 434,000 people scattered over an area of 5,255 km 2 . In the five years from 2001 to 2005, the population of these islands decreased by 8.3% compared to a 0.7% increase in the national population. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government administers some of these, including the Izu Islands. The Izu group consists of nine separate islands with a total population of 24,645 people spread over 296.56 km

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