As Japan’s Population Shrinks, a City Is Accused of Padding Census Numbers
Officials allegedly added empty households to census records, creating a nearly 3,000-person gap and prompting a police complaint from the ministry.
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As Japan's Population Shrinks, a Census Scandal Erupts
Japan's struggle with a shrinking population may have just produced a census scandal. Police raided city hall in Toyama on Saturday after national officials said the city appears to have padded its resident count by slipping empty households into Japan's once-every-five-years census, per the New York Times . The Internal Affairs...
In Japan, where birth rates are at record lows, the city of Toyama is being accused of altering census data. Last week, Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications announced that inconsistencies had been found during the review of the census data and that criminal charges had been filed against city officials. Ministry official Kenta Tsuji stated that the inconsistencies emerged during the final review of the census data. Read more T…
In connection with the Toyama City census inflating its population figures, it has been revealed that the Toyama Prefectural Police have seized the original census forms submitted by the city to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications for examination. Toyama City's preliminary census population figure, reported in May, was just over 400,000, nearly 3,000 more than the final figure. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications …
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