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This article is from the American misconceptions about Japan FAQ, by Tanaka Tomoyuki ez074520@dilbert.ucdavis.edu with numerous contributions by others.

Japanese cities are the most crowded in the world

THE TRUTH: in the book John Tepper Marlin, Immanuel Ness, Stephen T. Collins.
"Book of World City Rankings". The Free Press, 1986.

Table 9 Population Density compares 105 major cities in the
world.

1. Manila  
2. Shanghai 
3. Cairo 
4. Paris 
5. Bombay 

6. Buenos Aires
7. Tokyo  
8. Seoul 
9. Osaka 
10. Naples 
11. Jakarta 
12. Lisbon 
13. Moscow 
14. New York
15. Milan 

other Japanese cities in the table:

23. Yokohama  
25. Nagoya 
67. Kobe 
79. Kyoto
83. Sapporo

the list of 105 most crowded cities contains 13 US
cities and seven Japsnese cities.