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Number of Registered Dogs By Year in Japan

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has statistics of registered dogs since 1960. Registered dogs are increasing from 1960 to the present. 

  Number of registered dogs Of which Got injection for rabies Captured stray dogs Of which returned
1960 1,905,080 3,075,417 396,790 68,650
1965 2,362,632 3,999,176 485,109 60,791
1970 2,895,036 4,640,577 636,689 49,381
1975 3,197,228 5,157,812 602,453 21,351
1980 3,178,970 5,223,372 438,147 13,595
1985 3,430,916 3,460,920 350,043 13,425
1989 3,726,229 3,697,397 297,454 12,210
1990 3,889,612 3,862,619 288,659 11,863
1991 3,913,500 3,888,926 269,987 12,132
1992 4,055,708 4,041,703 251,593 12,180
1993 4,114,874 4,088,435 243,207 12,605
1994 4,143,370 4,111,445 244,061 13,142
1995 4,223,830 4,303,566 225,873 14,790
1996 4,799,379 4,283,977 210,851 14,926
1997 5,137,331 4,450,606 202,578 15,638
1998 5,424,157 4,479,486 191,693 17,932
1999 5,645,424 4,578,277 166,647 15,089
2000 5,779,462 4,606,527 151,574 15,336
2001 5,939,595 4,646,046 126,570 15,004
2002 6,084,731 4,681,524 109,864 14,912
2003 6,262,510 4,741,488 103,691 14,803
2004 6,394,226 4,801,709 95,858 14,995
2005 6,479,977 4,796,585 88,846 14,542
2006 6,635,807 4,910,047 86,621 14,948
2007 6,739,716 5,097,615 73,303 14,621
2008 6,804,649 5,091,515 64,575 15,266
2009 6,880,844 5,112,401 57,276 14,627
2010 6,778,184 4,961,401 51,630 14,498
2011 6,852,235 4,985,930 48,848 15,023
2012 6,785,959 4,914,347 44,246 14,618

Until 1985 dogs got injections twice a year.

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Source is Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

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