es can this be said? The fact that there are in Japan fifty
more or less active volcanoes, about a thousand hot springs and two
dozen mountains between 12,000 and 8,000 ft. high speaks for itself.
Ben Nevis is only 4,400, Snowdon only 3,500 ft.

The population of Korea in 1920 (17,284,207) was 239 per square mile.
According to _Whitaker_ for 1921 the population of Manchuria (11
millions) is 30 per square mile, and of Mongolia (3 millions) 2.8.

SMALL FARMS DECREASING [XXXI].

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Year |Below 5 |Over 5 |Over 5 |Over 2 |Over 3 |Over 5
|_tan_ |_tan_ |_cho_ |_cho_ |_cho_ |_cho_
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1908 |37.28 |32.61 |19.51 |6.44 |3.01 |1.15
1912 |37.14 |33.25 |19.61 |5.96 |2.83 |1.21
1918 |35.54 |33.30 |20.70 |6.33 |2.82 |1.31
1919 |35.36 |33.18 |20.68 |6.21 |2.83 |1.74
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See also Appendix XLVII.

FORESTS [XXXII]. The following figures for 1918 show, in thousand
_cho_, the ownership of forests (bared tracts in brackets): Crown,
1,303 (89); State, 7,288 (392); prefectures, cities, towns and
villages, 2,894 (1,383); temples and shrines, 111 (15); 7,186 (1,630);
total, 18,782 (3,509). The largest yield is from sugi (cryptomeria),
pine and _hinoki_ (_Charmae-cyparis obtusa_).

ARMAMENTS [XXXIII]. 1,505 million yen of the national debt is for
armaments and military purposes against 923 million yen for
reproductive undertakings (railways, harbours, drainage, roads,
steelworks, mining, telephones, etc.), 143 million for exploitation of
Formosa, Korea and Saghalien, 123 million for financial adjustment
and 98 million for feudal pensions and feudal debt. Of the expenditure
for 1920-1, 846 million, some 395 million were for the army and navy.
During a period of 130 years the United States Government has spent
nearly four-fifths of its revenue on war or objects related to war.

LANDOWNING AND FARMING [XXXIV]. Before the Restoration the farmers
were the tenants of the daimyos' vassals, the samurai, or of the
daimyos direct. When the daimyos gave up their lands the Crown made
the farmers the owners of the land they occupied. Its legal value was
assessed and the national land tax was fixed at 3 per cent, and the
local tax at 1 per cent. Various adjustments have since taken place.

The Japanese Constitutional Labour Party has insisted in a
co