Table 8. Population, number of patients, institutions and patient load according to prefecture.

Prefecture	Population (×103) [29]	Institutions	New patients	New patients/institution	Total patients	Total patients/institution
Hokkaido	5460	30	9431	314.4	11 642	388.1
Aomori	1350	10	2265	226.5	2470	247.0
Iwate	1303	8	1839	229.9	2412	301.5
Miyagi	2325	12	4447	370.6	5355	446.3
Akita	1063	10	1757	175.7	2095	209.5
Yamagata	1152	6	1381	230.2	1543	257.2
Fukushima	1962	10	2832	283.2	3136	313.6
Ibaraki	2943	14	3530	252.1	4275	305.4
Tochigi	1992	9	2767	307.4	3221	357.9
Gunma	1992	14	3944	281.7	4312	308.0
Saitama	7212	20	7180	359.0	8356	417.8
Chiba	6195	24	8038	334.9	9559	398.3
Tokyo	13,230	66	23 900	362.1	29 110	441.1
Kanagawa	9067	40	12 390	309.8	13 801	345.0
Niigata	2347	14	3671	262.2	4269	304.9
Toyama	1082	8	1578	197.3	1814	226.8
Ishikawa	1163	7	1963	280.4	2222	317.4
Fukui	799	6	1105	184.2	1291	215.2
Yamanashi	852	4	1361	340.3	1636	409.0
Nagano	2132	15	3248	216.5	3678	245.2
Gifu	2061	13	2908	223.7	3648	280.6
Shizuoka	3735	23	6129	266.5	7986	347.2
Aichi	7427	39	10 024	257.0	12 325	316.0
Mie	1840	12	2020	168.3	2227	185.6
Shiga	1415	10	1753	175.3	2199	219.9
Kyoto	2625	12	3744	312.0	4625	385.4
Osaka	8856	52	13 736	264.2	16 083	309.3
Hyogo	5571	32	8510	265.9	9742	304.4
Nara	1390	9	2251	250.1	2634	292.7
Wakayama	988	9	1397	155.2	1636	181.8
Tottori	582	7	1064	152.0	1265	180.7
Shimane	707	5	1016	203.2	1154	230.8
Okayama	1936	11	2859	259.9	3403	309.4
Hiroshima	2848	19	4762	250.6	5770	303.7
Yamaguchi	1431	14	1981	141.5	2291	163.6
Tokushima	776	5	1366	273.2	1459	291.8
Kagawa	989	6	1334	222.3	1531	255.2
Ehime	1415	10	2154	215.4	2550	255.0
Kochi	752	5	1224	244.8	1345	269.0
Fukuoka	5085	26	8416	323.7	9834	378.2
Saga	843	4	867	216.8	979	244.8
Nagasaki	1408	9	2324	258.2	2762	306.9
Kumamoto	1807	13	2971	228.5	3472	267.1
Oita	1185	11	1598	145.3	1970	179.1
Miyazaki	1126	8	1942	242.8	2312	289.0
Kagoshima	1690	11	2315	210.5	2567	233.4
Okinawa	1409	7	1618	231.1	1852	264.6
Total	127 518	709	190 910	269.3	225 818	318.5