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HTML

<script src="http://code.highcharts.com/highcharts.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.highcharts.com/modules/exporting.js"></script>

<div id="container" style="min-width: 400px; height: 400px; margin: 0 auto"></div>

JavaScript

$(function () {
        $('#container').highcharts({
            chart: {
                type: 'column',
                margin: [ 50, 50, 100, 80]
            },
            title: {
                text: 'Problematic Y-Axis labels'
            },
            xAxis: {
                minPadding: .1, // This doesn't work
                categories: [
                    'Tokyo',
                    'Jakarta',
                    'New York',
                    'Seoul',
                    'Kolkata',
                    'Los Angeles',
                    'Shanghai',
                    'Moscow',
                    'Beijing',
                    'Buenos Aires',
                    'Guangzhou',
                    'Shenzhen',
                    'Istanbul'
                ],
                labels: {
                    rotation: -45,
                    align: 'right',
                    style: {
                        fontSize: '13px',
                        fontFamily: 'Verdana, sans-serif'
                    }
                }
            },
            yAxis: {
                labels: { 
                                   align: 'left',
                                   x: 0,
                                   y: -8
                                   },
                                   
                min: 0,
                title: {
                    text: 'Population (millions)'
                }
            },
                                   plotOptions: { column: {pointPadding: 0}},
            legend: {
                enabled: false
            },
            tooltip: {
                formatter: function() {
                    return '<b>'+ this.x +'</b><br/>'+
                        'Population in 2008: '+ Highcharts.numberFormat(this.y, 1) +
                        ' millions';
                }
            },
            series: [{
                name: 'Population',
                data: [430, 218, 201, 200, 196, 105 ],
            ...