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ROSEBURG' NEWS-REVIEW, KOSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY. AUGUST 21', 1947 THIRTEEN Over-Population Of Japan Offers Threat to Peace By TOM LAMBERT AP Newsfeatures TOKYO The cry of over-population is rising again from these crowded Islands, a serious, articu late and accurate cry on an issue as important to the rest of the world as to Japan. There are 73,000,000 people huddled together on japan's four main islands in an area smaller than the state of Montana. They are Jammed together 497 to the square mile as compared with little more than 44 per square mile in the United States. Never in Japan's modern his tory has the country's area been able to support the population, which has more than doubled in 60 years. Since the occupation, some 535, 000 additional acres have been put into production through land reclamation programs which if carried out faithfully will give the country another 1,000,000 acres by 1950, But by that time if the popu lation rise continues, If the birth rate Is maintained, if infant mor tality decreases further as a re sult of Allied health teachings there will be 80,000,000 people in these islands. Leaders Stress Issue Japan's population is certain to be an issue among the peacemak ers, most of whom will remem ber that Hitler, Mussolini and the Nipponese themselves cried "over-population" as one excuse for expansion and aggression. It is becoming a more pro nounced issue with Japanese lead ers themselves, who are suggest ing tentative remedies. Prime Minister Tetsu Kata yama told the Associated Press that he "hopes" the Allies will "consider our overcrowded condi tions" when writing the peace treaty. Foreign Minister Hitdshl Ash Ida classified the Japanese emi gration problem as "a problem for negotiation" after the treaty is signed, evidence that he at least looks to emigration as one way to solve the over-population. State Minister Mltsusufce Yone kubo asserted recently, "I think it may be an idea to petition the Allied powers to allow return of our nationals to foreign coun tries ..." There is no doubt that Japan is over-populated but there is no doubt either that , the Japanese could relieve the pressure some what themselves. Partial Solution Seen One way would be to settle an other million people on Hokkaido, Nippon's frontier Island to the north.. Allied headquarters ex- fierts say that this island,, contain ng almost one routh of the acre age in Japan and only about l-24th of her population, is "agri culturally underpopulated." Most Japanese, however, shud der at the "colli difficult living" when asked why this partial so lution of sending more people to Hokkaido is not more successful. Japanese always arc choosy about the locations to which they wish to emigrate. They have and would , again leap at moving to Hawaii, California or Brazil but they show little inclination to do any pioneering. . When the Japanese overran Manchuria and held it up to the homcfolks as "living space," only a few hundred thousand and those mostly businessmen or gov ernment officials headed that way. Want Sunny Climes Repatriation figures further bear out the Japanese reluctance to leave their homeland for other than sunny climes and good liv ing conditions. Of 5,500,000 re patriates returned to Japan since the end of the war, only 2,890,000 were civilians. Birth control movements have had little success in Japan, large ly because militarists sought more men for the armies and in dustrialists a brimming labor pool. In an outline of Japan's natur al resources By Allied headquar ters one suggestion mentioned in connection with Nippon's future economy is "reducing the rate of . population growth." The natural resources section of headquarters which prepared the outline lists as other possibili ties for bettering the lot of Japa- HOME CANNING'S 8EST i piere metal hd Ui (hit ntt development in 2 piece mete I lidit Tvl'rtO doubt of a hi teal for your home -conned foodv. Jjtt prii to If it II DOME it down, jar it ialed' FtH any Mown for. Cosy to vm b towt it'i tur. Con mo'i ih aiY way with (Alt JAM A NO DOME UD$' JUST MISS , TO 1 ! cocrs HQ y tit : :5rrr is XT'? " .ir i ". ,. a asjt'rtinw .-'jajfaiiAP Signal Corpi, u. S. Army VIGIL FOR HEALTH Shown measuring liquid by means of a fjipette is Pfc. Thomas J. Smollet of Canyonville, second from eft, who is a laboratory technician with the 49th General Hos pital in Tokyo, Japan. Laboratory technicians contribute greatly to the health of U. 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