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JAPAN

The population of Japan on December 31 of the years shown

Year

Male

Female

Total

Annual Increase

per 1,000

19131 1916

1917 191S 1920 1

26 964,586 28,119,545 28,479,103 28,843,429 28,042,995

20,398,093 27,519,051 27,871,025 28,227,495 27,918,145

53,362,682 55,638.603 56,356,220 57,070,936 55,961,140

15 99 12-79 12-79 12-79

1 Census.

Iii 1920 (Census) the population of Chosen was 17,284,207 ; of Taiwan, 3,654,398 ; of Karafuto, 105,765. Total, Japan, 77,005,510.

Up to June 30, 1917, 450,773 Japanese emigrated, and of these 151,606 men and 76,572 women were living in the United States ; 25,937 men and 21,189 women in China ; 21,441 men and 8,067 women in Australasia ; 3,050 men and 2,688 women in Brazil ; and 978 men and 130 women in Europe. On December 31, 1918, the number of foreigners in Japan (exclusive of Formosa) was 19,500, of whom 12,139 were Chinese, 2,404 English, 1,837 American, 641 German, 445 French, 245 Portuguese, 109 Dutch, 687 Russian, 57 Swiss.

Births, deaths, and marriages of Japanese at home and abroad : —

Year

Marriages

Births

Deaths

Excess of Births

1913

432,782

1,778,106

1,038,723

739,383

1914

454,741

1,832,158

1,115,770

716,388

1915

447,170

1,824,888

1,107,237

717,651

1916

435,755

1,832,931

1,202,900

630,031

1917

450,478

1,843,023

1,215,337

627,686

In 1917 the still-births (not included in the above) numbered 140,328 and the illegitimate, 160,286.

The following is a list of large towns and cities on December 31

Tokvo (1920) 2,173,162 Osaka (1920) 1,252,972 Kobe (1920). 608,628 Kyoto (1920) 591,305 Nagoya (1920) 429,990 Yokohama(1920) 422,942 Nagasaki (1920) 176,554

Hiroshima

Kanazawa

Kurd

Hakodate

Saseho.

Sendai.

Otaru.

Fukuoka

Niigata

Okayama

Sapporo

Kagoshima

Yawata

Yokosuka

Wakayama

162,391

158,637

154,687

133,698

123.555

122,720

102,467

98,583

97,274

96,446

94,647

92,306

89,472

S8.742

84,603

Sakai

Shizuoka

Kumamoto

Moji

Tokushima

Toyama

Omuta.

Asahigawa

Shimonoseki

Toyohashi

1 lannniatsu

Fukui.

Nawa.

KOfu

Muroran

Matsuyama

Maebashi

Gifu.

Utsunomiya

T.su

Mi to.

K"dii.

75,346 73,972 73,613 73,377 73,096 73,032 72,482 69,421 67,866 66,839 61,029 59,932 59,362 58,453 58,349 58,346 58,320 57,909 57,377 51,522 53,030 50,955

Matsumoto

Morioka

Takamat.su

Kurume

Yamagata

Nara

Wakamatau

Himeji.

Aomori.

Oita.

Takasaki

Otsu.

Hachi-oji

Nagaoka

Akita.

Nagano

Qji-Yamada

Wakamatsu

Yonczawa

Takaoka

Okazaki

Saga.

1918 : — 50,356

48,484 48,319 48,124 47,883 47,515 47,053 45,232 45,017 43,842 43,653 43,550 42,661 41,864 41,778 41,490 41,460 41,411 40,749 40,408 39,996 38,547

1 Shimonoseki was formerly called Akamagaseki.