Migration between prefectures of Japan in 2012

You can check flows of the three streams:

1. In-migration: the Japanese moving into one prefecture from another place within the country.
2. Out-migration: the Japanese moving out of one prefecture to another place within the country.
3. Net internal migration: the difference between in-migration and out-migration.

To make sure that you understand, you can think about terms used in international migration which are equivalent of the terms used in internal migration:

immigration = in-migration

emigration = out-migration

net migration = net internal migration

Few things worth checking on the map:

Fukushima-ken – high out-migration.

Fukuoka-ken – one of the main industrial zones in the country with high immigration from prefectures that are around.

Hokkaido-ken - high out-migration; the prefecture has one fourth of Japan's total arable land, tourism is the second largest source of income for the local inhabitants.

Special thanks go to the Statistics Bureauand the Director-General for Policy Planning of Japan. 

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