JAPANESE AFFAIRS.
THE NATIONAL CENSUS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Tokio, March 1. The first national census shows a total of 77,005,000, for which Japan proper accounts for 55,960,000, Korea 17,284,000, Formosa 3,563,000. The population of Tokio is 2,173,000, and of Osaka 1,252,000. There are 124,850 more males than females.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [The area of Japan and its dependencies is 235,886 square miles, not much more than double the area of New Zealand, and the population is about 75 times as great as ours.] PRESS CENSORSHIP PROTEST. Tokio, March 1. Representatives) of seventeen newspapers met and drafted a strong resolution protesting against the official suppression of news. They demand the freedom of the Press and that the speeches made and the resolutions passed should be sent to the Home Minister. Thirty-one items are under the censor’s ban, and the newspapers are planning a series of mass meetings at which the public will be appealed to unless the Press is given an assurance that the censorship will cease.—Aus.-N.Z., Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1921, Page 5
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