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Publish Date: 1908/06/20
Volume: L, Issue: 25, Pages: 2068-2068
Abstract
A Scotch physician and ethnologist Dr Munro resident in Yokohama says that the stature of Japanese young people of both sexes is increasing and that this increase has become more noticeable since they have become accustomed to use benches and chairs instead of squatting on the floor as was formerly the custom in the public schools While not expressing any positive opinion on the subject himself he says that many able men in Japan are inclined to believe that the Japanese stature will be further increased with the more general abandonment of the squatting habit It is by no means impossible that there is some truth in this view and that attention to posture in early life may tend to a better physical development The Japanese people have shown themselves not lacking in physical vigor and endurance and with a larger frame they may be able to exceed their former
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