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The country is divided into 47 prefectures in eight regions. The population of 126 million is the world’s tenth largest. Japanese people make up 98.5% of Japan’s total population. Approximately 9.1 million people live in the core city of Tokyo,[9] the capital city of Japan, which is the sixth largest city proper in the OECD and the fourth leading global city in the world.
