Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1899 — Big Japanese Towns. [ARTICLE]

Big Japanese Towns.

Japan with a population of 45,000,000 has 220 towns that have more than 100,000 Inhabitants. In 1886 the number of such towns was 117. Osaka has Increased from 360,000 to 510,000 inhabitants in ten years, Yokohama from 89,000 to 180,000. Kobe from 80,000 to 185,000. Tokio has now a population of 1,300,000.