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:''This article deals with the population of the Empire of Japan. See also demographics of Japan and demographics of Japan before Meiji Restoration. The population of Japan at the time of the Meiji Restoration was estimated to be 34,985,000 on January 1, 1873,〔''Population of Japan after Meiji 5'' compiled by the Cabinet Bureau of Statistics of Japan in 1930.〕 while the official and ''de facto'' (or ) populations on the same day were 33,300,644 and 33,416,939, respectively. These were comparable to the population of the United Kingdom (31,000,000), France (38,000,000) and Austria-Hungary (38,000,000). == Japan proper == Meiji government established the uniformed registered system of in 1872, which is called . The first national census based on full sampling of inhabitants was conducted in Japan in 1920, and was conducted every five years thereafter. Per the Statistics Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the population distribution of Japan proper from 1920 to 1945 is as follows 〔(Statistics Bureau, The Population of Japan )〕 The above figures include Hokkaidō, the northernmost island, sparsely populated, with area similar to the state of Maine; the central island of Honshū, larger than Ohio and Indiana, site of the most important cities and industrial centers; and smaller islands of Kyūshū and Shikoku, and Okinawa (except for the 1945 census values). In Japan proper, the population of major cities was as follows: In 1937 Japanese demographers projected the Japanese population in 1980 to reach 100,000,000, in accordance with observed growth rates. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Demographics of Imperial Japan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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