OCR Text |
Show pflRST 4 CENSUS TAKEN BoKlO, Dec 18 (Correspondence ' Bite a; -- ..;"i I"' oss.) The fiist. Bk-s ever taken in Jpan by mod-nttbed? mod-nttbed? showed i n Japan proper Q(ft E.tr ol' Lor..'.. Sorn.o-, and ""KiiliT fhep 1 1 in in E These figures were an-Ei:ti an-Ei:ti thl? afternoon b; the Ce'n- Bureau (called in Japanese of- ( 5Mhl lupare the Pur. an of Nation- Mpof; Invetipation ) ""Ke aclnaJ figures prove ih Ll!fc estimates which have boon Kf ft. . million 111 Kt-i Ol tie truili The ostiin;i l c of , ' .'Jfejtloti (or based on a com tjiBuoa of thi' 11 h 1 registers was H( cf n.-n in" Kbs of I'-1'1 gi' '- Japan "'Jlfcr ;jp 19 1 ate wa 57,i'7n. SKr 1,109,796 more tli.in the 192u VgnHre The decrease for tin:- em-t em-t jBls IS pe-r e-etii ; for Japan proper 1 There are 124.880 more males than i females in Japan proper Thp mains 1 number 28.0rfS.996 and the females' 127.918,154. The total number of families In Japan proper is 11,222,063. Following are the 14 largest cities I , of Japan Tk; 2.173162 ' ' isaka i.2"2 07 Kobe 608.628 1 Kioto 5j)j Nagoya 429,990 okohama ', Nagasaki . . 176.554 Hiroshima 106.504 Hakodate 144 740 Kanazawa . 129 3o Kurp 130.354 Bendai H8.978I (,(aru 108.11:: I Sapporo 102.571 The following are figures for the i rarious parts of the empire of the census returns for l'JJO: Japan Pioper 55,901. 140 ' Korea 17.2X4,207 Foi inosa 3.654. 39S . Sagbalieh 105.765 ! Japanese Empire 77.005.510 ' |