However, starting at the time when the finance of each of the cities, towns and villages suffered badly after the end of Russo-Japanese War, integration came to be strongly promoted from the latter half of the Meiji period to the Taisho and Showa periods.
しかしながら、日露戦争終了後の各市町村の財政窮乏を期に、明治後期から大正、昭和にかけて強力に進められるようになった。