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The latest census survey last year by the ministry of internal affairs reported on Friday that Japan' population has come down to about 1 million, or 0.7 percent in five years.

The reduction in total numbers was 947,000 people. Japan had 128.1 million people in 2010, and documented 127.1 million last year, according to the Associated Press.

Its 39 prefectures out of 47 had experienced a huge drop. Hence, just eight prefectures, including Tokyo, experienced a spurt in the population in the last five years. The Japanese census is conducted after every five years.

The Tokyo population was 13.5 million, about 2.7 percent more than in 2010. With huge migrations to urban areas, the top nine prefectures, including Tokyo, Osaka, Aichi and Fukuoka have half the nation's population.

In order to arrest the decline, it was important to enhance the birthrate, said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga. "It is crucial to establish a social structure to accommodate the decline," Suga told Kyodo.

Hence, the total number of households have gone up by 2.8 percent as compared to the earlier census, which was 53,403,226.

Currently, Japan is the world's 10th most populated nation.