JAPAN’S POPULATION.
HUGE ANNUAL INCREASE. TWO ALTERNATIVES. STARVATION OR MIGRATION. 8Y CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Received Julv 8, 1 p.m.) VANCOUVER, July 7. Count Michimasa, a member of the Japanese House of Peers, in addressing the University of Chicago, stated: “The population of Japan is increasing at the rate of about 600,000 yearly, and in another 30 years there will be nothing left for us but to starve, unless those countries which have unlimited areas of fertile lands grow rice and export it to Japan, or an open door policy is declared throughout the world.”—A. and N.Z. Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 8 July 1925, Page 11
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