Show RAPiD GROWl OF JAPANESE Population of the Islands Increasing 2000000 Each Five Years Tokyo The population of Japan to day Is Just about fiO000000 The exact ex-act figures for 1907 aro not yet available avail-able but tho estimates just published are based on tho average growth of tho last 30 rears and may be taken as fairly accurate In each of the five year periods for which figures are shown over the last 25 years the pop ulation has Increased roughly speak ing by 2000000 Today the estimate Is that there are 49267744 native born Japanese in the territory ruled Lver by the mikado In addition figures In tho official record show that at the end of 1906 thero were bomo 300000 Japanese abroad and that figure has been large Increased during the last year Exclu sive of China and Korea there were ifiono Japanese settled In various parts of Asia while tho nearer terrl tories of tho two exceptions named wero credited with 100000 Europe had COO Australia and the Islands of the Pacific 70000 and the United States 90000 Tho Japanese native papers com mont with satisfaction on these proofs of Japanese progress especially when compared with tho falling birth rato In certain western countries They also claim that where there has been ob jection to Japanese immigration it has never been on the l ground that they wero undesirable citizens because of being of a low typo jectionable or addicted to ob habits On tho they have been ohjected contrary to their because of They Industry havo been and simplicity of life Asahi of being accused says the aggressive There Is not tho smallest justification for such an epithet They have beaten the back aggression of other no powers but aggression on their own can be laid to their charge account |