The author measured the girth of upper arm of the 1110 repatriates from Kita Ooagari Island and South Manchuria, and of 497 natives of Okinawa Islands repatriated from Japan. He compared their mean values of different districts each other, and he also compared them with that of general Japanese people reported before the war. He noticed that the girth of upper arm of repatriated people was less than that of general Japanese.
