In the four years.of the Stno-. Japanese war, the number of Japanese residents in China increased from 86,000 to 510,000, Restrictions on immigration have kept the Japanese population in the East Indies and the Philippines fairly static in recent years but Japanese now are pouring into French Indo-China and Thailand with the idea of developing their rich resources, "The ratio of six to one by which the Japanese population in China has increased would be equalled or exceeded in any south seas country to which the Japanese could gain access,
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