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 | | On 31 March, 1908, the total population of Japan was 49,092,000 inhabitants; that of Formosa 3,155,005; and that of the Ainus (aborigines) 17,632. |
 | | The seas which surround Japan are the Pacific Ocean on the east, the Sea of Okhotsk on the North, the Sea of Japan on the west, and the China Sea on the south. |
 | | This hierarchy was established in Japan in the reign of the Empress Suiko (A.D. In 682 the number of degrees was raised to forty-eight; in 702 it was fixed at thirty. |
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