AJ1EA AND POPULATION
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peninsula Chosen (Korea), and the southern half of the island of Karafuto (Sakhalin). Total area is shown as fallows : —
Princijial Island*
Mainland .
Shikoku .
Kiushiu
Hokkaidr. (excluding the
Chisnima) ChishimaorKurilr I • l . Oki . Awaji Iki . Tsushima . Riukiu (66 Islands) Ogssawarajitna or Bonin
Islands (20 islands)
Total
Chosen (Korea). Taiwan (Formosa) . Hokoto (Pescadores) Karafuto (Japanese Sak- halin) .
Grand Total
Nnral>er
of
Adjacent
Small
l.-lai.'!.-
l«7
74 150
Pnncira! Islands
M^6I
30,340
m
13,011
Area in aqi:are
Mauds
473
17r;
lasyota
Total
Per cent.
33-63
• 02
30,502
ll-TO
2-33
131
0f»
0-02
SMI
0-36
n
o-oi
148,756
13,944 13,253
5-35
0-1 r>
5-0S
Administratively there exists a division into 47 prefectures. Th a division into 636 rural districts, 79 cities, 1,333 towns, and 10,839 villages (1918).
Taiwan (Formosa) and Hokoto (the Pescadores) were hina
in accordance with the treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895, and Japanese Karafuto was ceded by Russia by the Treaty of Portsmouth, X. H., in 1905. I'.v the same Treaty of Peace the Russian Government ceded to Japan the lease of Port Arthur, Ta-lien, aud adjacent territory and v also the railway between Chan-Chun and Port Arthur, and the coal mines worked in connection therewith. In March, 1915, the Chinese Government 1 to extend the lease of the territory on Liaotung Peninsula, including Arthur and Dalny, to 99 years. The Chino-Japanese Treaty of December 22, 1905, provided for the interests of China and Japan with respect to Manchuria. By a treaty between Japan aud Korea on Aug. 23, 1910, the Korean Territory was annexed to the Umpire of Japan.
By an agreement signed May 25, 1915, Japan obtained from China exclusive mining rights in Eastern Mongolia, and the right to settle in the province, and in Shantung the transference of all mining and railway privileges hitherto enjoyed by the Germans : also the extension of the lease of Port Arthur to 99 years, and a joint control over certain industrial works in which they have a large financial interest, besides other privileges. (For full details, see Introduction to The Statesman"'* Yeak-Book lor 1916.)
