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JAPAN BY THE JAPANESE

By these and other means Japan may be said to be well prepared to meet the increasing demand for food.

According to the official statistics recently published by the Department of Agriculture and Commerce of Japan, the rice crop of 1901 in that country is estimated at 46,854,241 koku (1 koku is equal to 4.629 bushels), or 552,883,241 yen in value, if we take the average price of rice in 1901 as standard. This is the highest figure in the last twenty-five years for which there are reliable statistics, except in 1898.

Year. Area of
Rice-field.		 Amount of
Harvest.		 Import. Total. Consumed
as Food.
Koku. Koku. Koku. Koku. Koku.
1878 2,489,765 25,282,540 0,000,009 25,282,549 20,446,177
1879 2,541,661 32,418,924 0,049,994 32,468,918 27,364,012
1880 2,562,460 31,359,326 0,079,321 31,438,647 26,696,462
1881 2,564,125 29,961,183 0,021,667 29,993,050 25,085,156
1882 2,580,255 30,692,327 0,002,868 30,692,195 25,474,745
1883 2,579,543 30,671,492 0,000,017 30,671,509 27,104,380
1884 2,605,720 26,349,883 0,002,341 26,352,224 22,551,359
1885 2,661,988 34,158,169 0,118,396 34,276,565 31,162,708
1887 2,618,015 37,191,424 0,003,926 37,195,350 33,401,754
1887 2,637,069 39,999,199 0,028,087 40,027,286 36,330,029
1888 2,685,986 38,645,583 0,004,871 38,650,454 33,249,502
1889 2,726,538 33,007,566 0,020,695 33,028,261 27,745,925
1890 2,751,786 43,084,044 1,838,638 44,922,682 41,320,174
1891 2,763,200 38,181,405 0,671,203 38,852,608 34,408,508
1892 2,760,662 41,429,676 0,329,724 41,759,400 37,457,820
1893 2,775,233 37,267,418 0,559,632 37,827,050 33,179,155
1894 2,736,494 41,859,047 1,321,851 43,180,898 38,672,285
1895 2,784,682 39,960,798 0,674,141 40,634,939 35,685,613
1896 2,793,499 36,240,351 0,744,802 39,985,152 31,426,722
1897 2,787,181 33,039,294 2,520,558 35,559,851 30,666,179
1898 2,817,624 47,387,666 4,678,501 52,066,167 47,055,346
1899 2,839,550 38,698,258 0,660,237 40,358,495 35,105,941
1900 2,828,479 41,466,734 0,914,792 42,381,526 37,333,536
1901 — 46,854,512 1,244,775 48,099,287 —
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