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JAPAN
Islands), according to the official returns of December 31, 1896. was 147,655 square miles. The population of the six divisions was as follows : —
—
Sq. ni.
Population
Pop.
jier sq. m.
—
Sq. m.
Population
Pop
per
sq. m.
Central Nippou Northern ,, Western ,,
Total Nippon
36,600 30,204 20,681
16,532,349 6,502,867 9,612,622
452 215 464
Shikoku. Kiushiu . Hokkaido
Grand tot.
7,031 16,840 36,299
2,948,009
6,604,047
508,870
419
392
14
87,485
32,647,388
373
147,655
42,708,264
289
The population consisted of 21,561,023 males and 21,147,241 females.
On December 31, 1896, the population was divided among the various classes as follows : — Imperial family, 45 (not included in the total population) ; kwazoku, or nobles, 4,375 ; shizoku, or knights (formerly retainers of the daimios), 2,067,997 ; common people, 40,635,892. The number of foreigners in 1896 was 9,238, of whom 4,533 were Chinese, 1,960 English, 1,025 Ameri- cans, 476 Germans, 343 French, 124 Portuguese, 83 Dutch, 269 Russians. The number of Japanese residents abroad in 1896 was 54,342.
The number of Ainus in Hokkaido ( Yezo) in 1896 was stated to be 16,978.
The following table gives the statistics of the births, deaths, and mar- riages for five years : —
Year
Births
Deaths
Marriages
Excess of Births
1892 1893 1894 1895 1896
1,217,521 1,178,428 1,208,983 1,246,427 1,282,178
886,988 937,644 840,768 852,422 912,822
349,489 358,389 361,319 365,633 501,777
330,533 240,784 368,215 394,005 369,356
In 1896 the still-births (not included in the above) numbered 127,213 (or 9 03 per cent.), and the illegitimate, 84,479 (or 6 6 per cent).
The following is a list of
the large towns and cities in 1896
Tokio .
1,299,941
Toyama .
Osaka .
503,690
Wakayama
Kioto .
341,101
Okayama .
Nagoya .
242,085
Kumamoto
Kobe .
184,192
Kagoshima
Yokohama
. 179,502
Niigata .
Hiroshima
107,685
Otani
Kanazawa
85,916
Sakai
Sendai .
77,476
Fukui
Nagasaki
72,390
Shidzuoka
Hakodate
70,821
Akamagaseki
Fukuoka
62,212
Utsomomiya
Tokusima
61,489
Kofu
58,975
Kochi
35,470
57,366
Matsuye .
34,625
57,210
Otsu
34,556
56,824
Matsuyama
34,535
53,895
Takamatsu
34,274
51,335
Naba
34,117
50,717
Sapporo .
33,987
49,063
Nagano .
. 33,141
44,290
Yamagata
. 32,151
39,950
Mito
32,064
36,570
Morioka .
. 31,989
36,430
Hirosaki .
. 31.295
35,738
