Tokyo loves their sport and one of the most popular is Sumo wrestling. Sumo isn't just fat people hitting each other, its more than that. For Sumo wrestling you need, Speed, Technique and Strength. Other popular sports are tennis, Soccer, baseball and also Track running. Tennis is starting to become a big thing because of the up and comers and their top tennis player is Kei Nishikori and he is one of the top players in the world. Because he is going so well, they are opening up tennis academy's for younger kids to follow in his foot-steps. One of the big stadiums that is known for track running is the National Olympic stadium and that has been successful but in 2015 it is planned to get knocked down and upgrade it. The new stadium will be the venue for the 2020 summer Olympics and it will also hold the 2019 rugby world cup. Down the bottom is a photo of the national Olympic stadium.
POPULATION IN TOKYO
Tokyo is a fairly big populated city. As you should know, Tokyo is the capital city of Japan and On the 1st of May this year, the population of Tokyo was calculated and the there is 13,35 million people living in these city. Tokyo is 2,188 square kilometres and it is very crowded. 13,35 is a big number for a city and seeing that the space they have in this city isn't to big makes life hard to get around town. The population has grew a fair bit and in the 1900s, Tokyo was only at about 2 million residents in Tokyo. But before that in the time of world war 2, the population halved and there were not many Tokyo people still around. The population grew back to its max and it is sitting well with 13 million people currently in Tokyo. It is predicted that in 90 years, Tokyo's population will halve and 7.13 million of their population will be people over 65.
crime rate IN TOKYO
Tokyo's crime rate has a safe crime rate. The homicide rate in Tokyo is fairly low as it is 0.83 per 100,000 per year. That is one of the best rates behind Germany and Norway. But one of the problems here in Japan is the bicycle crimes. Their biggest problem is the number of bicycle's that get stolen. But seeing how bad the rate is, it is amazing that the police recover nearly 50% of the bikes. The total crime rate is 21% of people get in trouble with the ops a year and that is a very good result. In the graph below shows the crime rate for all the crimes that go on in Tokyo from around the year 2010.
MIGRANTS IN TOKYO
The percent for migrants in Tokyo haven't changed rapidly. The rate of the migration is 1.85% in Tokyo and that has stayed the same over the last few years. The number of Japanese migrants was 5,044,299 people and the migration rate is at 4.00%. That rating is decreased for the last 8 years. In the pie chart below it shows the number of migrants and the reason they move. In the blue is the residents that are permanently living there and that rating is 21.0 while the brown is the long-term residents and that is at 12,5. The green is the family members of Japanese citizens and that is 11,9 while the purple is students and trainees at a rating of 14.2. The pull factors that persuade people to come into town are them factors. Some people come because of family members and others come because of their kids education and that is important to them.
LANGUAGE'S IN TOKYO
One of the hardest things in Tokyo is the language. If you come from a country and you can only speak English, it is very hard to go to a city with 13 million people who have no idea about speaking English. The language everyone speaks is Japanese and you need to make sure you know good Japanese if you want to move there. All the shops, street names and everything else is all in Japanese. They have three different types of Japanese and that is Kanji, hiragana and katakana. These were made in the 6 century and have been successful in all the years from that.
RELIGION IN TOKYO
In Tokyo there is two main religions they follow and they are Shinto and Buddhism. Shinto has been around as long as the Japanese culture. Religions do not play a role in the average Japanese persons life though. Most of the people just celebrate the births and the wedding and more of the rituals like them.