[rendaw]

Tokyo area population falls for first time (2022): https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14691787

> Ministry officials said deaths outnumbered births in the area by a wider margin than in previous years, fewer people entered the country from abroad amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and more people moved from the capital to other prefectures.

[Schiendelman]

That has probably already reversed, people have come back again post covid.