Japanese people
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Japanese people
日本人
Flag of Japan.svg
National flag of Japan
Total population
c. 129 million
Regions with significant populations
Japan 125 million[1]
Significant Japanese diaspora in:
Brazil 1,600,000[2][3]
United States 1,304,286[4]
China (PRC) 140,134[5]note
Philippines 120,000[6][7][8]
Canada 109,740[9]
Australia 71,013[10]
Thailand 67,424[11]
Argentina 65,000[12][13]
United Kingdom 63,017[14]
Germany 36,960[10]note
France 30,947[10]note
South Korea 28,320[10]note
Mexico 28,100[15]
Singapore 23,000[16]
Malaysia 22,000[17]
Hong Kong 21,297[5]
Taiwan (ROC) 20,373[10]
Micronesia 20,000[18]
Bolivia 14,000[19]
New Zealand 13,447[10]note
Italy 12,156[10]note
Indonesia 11,263[10]
Vietnam 9,468[20]
Switzerland 8,499[10]note
New Caledonia 8,000[21]
Spain 7,046[10]note
Paraguay 7,000[22]
Netherlands 6,616[10]
Belgium 6,519[10]
Marshall Islands 6,000[23]
India 5,554[24]
Palau 5,000[25]
Macau 4,200[26]
Peru 3,949[27]
Uruguay
3,456[28]
note
Languages
Japanese, Portuguese, English
Religion
Predominantly Mahayana (Buddhism in Japan), Shinto and Non-religion
Minority Japanese new religions, other religions[1][29][30]
^ note: The population of naturalized Japanese people and their descendants is unknown. Only the number of the permanent residents with Japanese nationality is shown.
Japanese people (日本人 Nihonjin?) are an ethnic group native to Japan.[31][32][33][34][35] Japanese people make up 98.5% of the total population of their country.[36] Worldwide, approximately 129 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 125 million are residents of Japan.[1] People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries are referred to as the Japanese diaspora (日系人 Nikkeijin?). The term ethnic Japanese may also be used in some contexts to refer to particular ethnic groups, including the Yamato (the dominant ethnic group, comprising over 120 million), Ainu, and Ryukyuan people
