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]

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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