Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1920 — CALIFORNIA JAPS INCREASE 69.7% [ARTICLE]

CALIFORNIA JAPS INCREASE 69.7%

Washington, Nov. The Japanese population of California was announced today by the census bureau as 70,19®, an increase of 28,840, of 69.7 per cent compared with The Japanese population of Washington was announced as 17,114, an increase of 4,185, or 3?.4 per cent. The Japanese population of Oregon was given as 4,022, an increase of 604, or 17.7 per cent. The statement showed that the Japanme of California constituted two per cent ®f tai population of the stpte in 1920 as compared with 1.7 per cent in 1910 and seven-tenths of one per cent in 1900. “The increase, said the announcement, “was at alower than for the preceding'decade. the increase from 1900 to >.1910 being 31,205, or 307.4 per-eeat. figures showed a large increase in the Japanese female population in California, the figures for 1920 being 44,864 malm and 25,832 females, as compared with 35,116 males and 6,240 in 1910, and 9,598 males and 553 females in 1900. • The Japanese population of Hawaii is 109,269, out of a total population of 255,612. p»e Japanese constitute 42.7 per cent of the 1920 population. . _ The actual increase of Japanese on the island during the past decade was 29,594, or 87.1 per cent, as against a percentage gain or 30.4 per cent made during 1900-10.