OVER - POPULATION IN JAPAN
Seeking the solution of its greatest diplomatic difficulty, that of restrictive immigration, the Japanese government is planning to spend 750,000,000 dollars in the next ten years in the development of land within the Empire, according to Yoshi S. Kuno, assistant professor of Japanese in the University of California. The Japanese government plans to develop the island of Yezo, of Hokkaido. the second largest island in the Japanese archipelago, which now has a population of but 62 to the square mile, as compared to the average of 380 in the other islands. Yezo, according to Professor Kuno, can support comfortably a population of between five and six million people. The climate of Yezo is rather cold, and for that reason its settlement has been slow. With the development of projects planned, however, the imperial government hopes to make it attractive agriculturally and as a place in which to live.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1687, 17 November 1925, Page 6
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