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Japan is a fascinating country for a lot of reasons. But chief among them is the fact that well over half the population live in just three metropolitan areas: Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. And for a country that is both larger in population (125 million people) and large in size (145,000 square miles) there should probably be more areas of the country that have more people. So why do so many Japanese live within just three relatively tiny areas?

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