The Archive · 1941

NEI Question

Tu yet another article Mr. Mute described his visit to "Hokkaido and expressed great surprise at discovering that the island in question had only a population of some 3.500.006 or less than that of Tokyo itself "For all our talk of the Netherlands Fast Indies. we cannot have *o establish there in the next century more than some 200.000 Javanese, and or condition. of course. "hat we advance in_that area." he said.

Mr. Muto thus hinted that Japan mus* realize that she can engage in expansion without going out of the Javanese Isles and that she has in the Empire itself an outlet for her snrolus population—Havas Telemondial

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