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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.
