The average duration of marriages in England is twenty-eight years ; in Prance and Germany, twenty-six ; Norway, twenty-four ; Russia, thirty. '• There is no land in the world where such, a rapid concentralisation of population in the towns has taken place as in Japan. Within the last decade Tokyo has doubled its population since 1888, viz., to 1,300,000; Yokohama and Kobe rose respectively frcm 89,000 and 80,000 to 180,000 and 185,000; Osaka from 360,000 to 510,000 inhabitants. In 1886 there were in Japan 117 towns with more; than 100,000 inhabitants ; now there are 220. Japan * numbers now 45,000>000 souls. . .
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6901, 15 September 1900, Page 2
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97Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Star (Christchurch), Issue 6901, 15 September 1900, Page 2
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