JAPANESE IN OTHER LANDS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2717, 11 March 1916, Page 3

JAPANESE IN OTHER LANDS

359,716 IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. The Japanese Foreign Office has recently published tables showing tho number and professions of tho Japanese residing in foreign countries says cent mail advices to the "liast and West News." According to the figures, tho Japanese residing in foreign countries at the end of last June numbered 359,716, of whom 240,423 wero men and 1 the _ remaining 179,393 were women and girls. As compared with tho corresponding period of the preceding year, an increaso of. 38,454 is shown. When they are classified as to tho place of their residence, Asia oomea first, with 134,498, of whom 73,247 are males and the remaining 61,251 are females. They were distributed as follows:— ' . ASIA-' Males. Females. Total. Russian Asia ... 2,260 2,303 4,563 China 67,363 54,593 121,959 Hongkong ■ 769 786 1,5551 Saigon 31 130 161 Siam 157 G1 218 Singapore 2,298 2,568 5,166 British India ... 369 510 '879 - OCEANICA'.' Sydney 7,583 227 7,810 Manila 4,431 867 .5,208 Batavift 1,592 1,357 2,9-19 AMERICA. . United States... 67,041 12,601 79,642 Alaska 592 61 903 H awn ii 57,245 -33,563 90,808 E ' 2,572 165 2,381 Canada 9,1,56 2,803 11,059 P eru 5,163 319- 5,482 Ohilo 291 14 305 Brazil. .... .9,581 5,881 15,462 Argentine ...... o6J 114 609 ■RUKOm Spain, 8; Portu-ai, 2 ; Franco, 129; England l , 478; Belgium; 15; Holland, o; Germany, 433; Austria, 3.7; Switzciland, 11; Italy, ,17;... Sweden, 6;.Rus«iu, 89. ■