Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1918 — Japan's Unique Population. [ARTICLE]

Japan's Unique Population.

There has never before been a nation at once so numerous and so homogeneous as the Japanese, says a writer •in Scribner’s. Their population Is ee* timated at somewhere between 60,000000 and 75,000,000. Their territory, hardly so extensive as was controlled' by our Revolutionary colonies, contains from half to three-quarters as many people as inhabit the whole United States. This population, too, is remarkably’uniform. Those who know Japan best agree |j»at, if we except the negligible aborigines of some northern provinces, you can hardly find among the Japanese any difference much more pronounced than those which might distinguish New Hampshire from Connecticut Compare this with our own country, or with the widely various races and languages of China or of India, or with England* Scotland and Wales, and you will see that the patriotism of Japan has to sanction its intensity a population ♦het is unique to human record.