Yubari may offer Japan a taste of things to come Mar. 8 06:38 am JST Mar. 8 | 06:38 am JST YUBARI, Hokkaido
Yubari is a town in Hokkaido. It has the highest average age of any town in Japan, and probably the world. Indeed, its population is possibly the oldest to have ever existed.
In its heyday, Yubari was known as the capital of the Japanese coal industry. But when the country switched to foreign oil imports after the war, the coal industry collapsed. From a peak of 120,000 people in 1960, the town’s population fell to 21,000 in 1990, the year its last coal mine closed. Since then, Yubari’s population has halved again, as those who stayed on after the mines closed have aged and died.
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