The census completed December 31, 1892, illustrates here, as all over the world, nature's argument against polygamy.

It tells us that the relation between the sexes is, numerically at least, normal.

There were 20,752,366 males and 20,337,574 females, making a population of 41,089,940 souls.

All these people are subjects of the one emperor, and excepting fewer than twenty thousand savages in the northern islands called Ainos, speak one language and form substantially one race.

Even the Riu Kiu islanders are Japanese in language, customs and religion.