PEACEFUL EMIGRATION
Japan’s Population Problem
HELD ESSENTIAL TO RELIEVE PRESSURE
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Rec. 11 p.m,
TOKIO, Dec. 8.
In its first public report on the population problem, Japan has declared that migration is essential to relieve the pressure. It is hopeless trying to solve the problem by birth control alone, says the report, which was drawn up by the Population Problem Council appointed by the Prime Minister, Mr Shigeru Yoshida, last June. The report says; “If understanding and co-operation can be obtained from foreign nations with respect to peaceful emigration from Japan, it would have a very great effect in easing the tense feeling of surplus population.” Acknowledging that migration plans would be strongly opposed by some countries, the report says: “Japan in all sincerity should appeal to world public opinion and endeavour to enlist the assistance of the United Nations, the International Labour Organisation, and other world agencies.” The council estimated that the Japanese population would be 90,000,000 by 1955 and 100,000,000 by 1962.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27259, 9 December 1949, Page 7
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