• Norah (pup/it/she)
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    611 months ago

    While yes, most of the world’s oldest people generally don’t live in cities, what’s your beef with Tokyo specifically? You make it sound like a death city.

    • Johanno
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      11 months ago

      It’s just that over 90% (i think) 30% of Japans population lives there. So the claim that they have the oldest people in the world makes it funny when most of their population lives in a city that is probably not that healthy to live in.

      I mean Tokyo is probably the best Mega city on the planet so it ain’t that bad for sure.

      • @Soulg
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        1011 months ago

        Ok but Google says that 10% of Japanese live in Tokyo, which is still massive but 90% is a ridiculous stretch

        • @[email protected]
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          411 months ago

          Maybe he’s referring to the greater Tokyo Metropolitan area? Sounds more plausible at least since it’s absolutely massive. Def not for just Tokyo city.

          • Norah (pup/it/she)
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            411 months ago

            The Greater Tokyo Metropolitan area has a population of 37 million while the country has a population of 125.7 million. While an impressively large percentage, it’s still less than a third (29.4%) of the population of Japan proper.

            • @[email protected]
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              211 months ago

              Fair enough and also insane. Shout out to their public transit there. I stayed there for a couple weeks and it was amazing how easy it was for me to do whatever I wanted without worrying about how to get to places.

            • Johanno
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              111 months ago

              Ok I was too lazy to look it up but just remembered that Tokyo had a big part of the population.