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. Outside of Spanish cession to U.S. but geographically clos
 
                                                            
 
 
side the limits of the 1898 cession from Spain, but possibly
 
                                                            
 
 
a Islands) - Conflicting claims of China, France, and Japan.
 
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which is dominantly Korean.  (1937 Japan Year Book shows 474
 
                                                            
 
 
ted in the Anglo-Japanese alliance the same year. Japan acqu
 
                                                            
 
 
iles, and the population, in 1940, was 24,326,327. In 1937 t
 
                                                            
 
 
u of an indemnity following the Russo-Japanese war. The popu
 
                                                            
 
 
awal from Southern Sakhalin. The permanent population of 17,
 
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