{"id":853330,"date":"2026-08-13T03:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/853330\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T03:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:46:16","slug":"tokyo-seoul-bucking-trend-of-major-nations-capital-exodus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/853330\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo, Seoul bucking trend of major nations&#8217; capital exodus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/datawatch\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Datawatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Over 60% of OECD capitals see concentration easing amid remote work, high housing prices<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20260803 House Bulding\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">People in Japan tend to choose living in the Tokyo metropolitan area partly in the hope of receiving higher incomes. (Nikkei montage\/Source photos by Rie Ishii)<\/p>\n<p>KATSUYUKI TANIMOTO<\/p>\n<p>August 13, 2026 06:00 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan&#8217;s capital continues to draw residents while nearly 65% of OECD member states are experiencing an easing of the national concentration in their capitals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Datawatch Over 60% of OECD capitals see concentration easing amid remote work, high housing prices People in Japan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,423650,99,45432,164,191138,26582,58670,5811,11804,32227],"class_list":["post-853330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bucking","tag-business","tag-capital","tag-economy","tag-exodus","tag-major","tag-nations","tag-seoul","tag-tokyo","tag-trend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}