Tokyo, Jan. 18, Japan's total population' increased by 197,893 persons during the last six months of 1034, according 10 figures released to-day by the Cabinet Bureau of Statistics. There were 423,404 births and 285,041 deaths, an [increase of 621 births and 7,933 deaths jin comparison with the corresponding period for 1933.
In the first semester of 19%, the natural increase in population' was 461,080, These figures represent decrease of 88,944 in the natural rate Jot increase during 1934 as compared to 1933—Rengo.
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