Japanese people

Japanese people

日本人
Total population
c. 125 million
Regions with significant populations
Japan 120.8 million[1]
Significant Japanese diaspora in:
Brazil	2,000,000[2] (2022)
United States	1,586,652[3] (2020)
Canada	129,425[4] (2021)
Philippines	120,000[5][6][better source needed]
Peru	103,182[7] (2021)
China	102,066[8] (2022)note
Australia	94,942[8] (2022)note
Mexico	86,143[9] (2022)
Thailand	78,431[8] (2022)note
Argentina	76,440[10] (2020)
United Kingdom	65,022[8] (2022)note
Germany	42,266[8] (2022)note
South Korea	41,717[8] (2022)note
France	36,104[8] (2022)note
Singapore	32,743[8] (2022)note
Malaysia	24,545[8] (2022)note
Vietnam	21,819[8] (2022)note
Taiwan	20,345[8] (2022)note
Micronesia	20,000[11][better source needed] (2018)
Other countries (fewer than 20,000) Indonesia 14,720[12]note New Zealand 14,118[13] Bolivia 14,000[14] Netherlands 10,460[15] Spain 8,720[16] India 8,398[17][18] New Caledonia 8,000[19] Italy 7,556[20]note Paraguay 7,000[21] Belgium 6,519[citation needed] Marshall Islands 6,000[22] Sweden 5,235[citation needed] Palau 5,000[23] Macau 4,200[24] Switzerland 4,071[25]note Austria 3,500[26] Uruguay 3,456[27]note Cambodia 3,363 (2022, Japanese nationality onlynote)[28] Ireland 3,122[29] Colombia 3,000[30]note Chile 2,600[31] Russia 1,321[32]note Qatar 1,000[33]
Languages
Japanese
Religion
Primarily, in a traditional/cultural context, a mix of Shinto and Buddhism; minorities ascribe to Christianity and other religions[34][35][36]
Related ethnic groups
Ainu · Ryukyuan · Yamato
^ Note: For this country, only the number of residents with Japanese nationality is shown, since the number of naturalized Japanese people and their descendants is unknown.

Japanese people (Japanese: 日本人, Hepburn: Nihonjin) are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago.^[37][38] Japanese people constitute 97.4% of the population of the country of Japan.^[1] Worldwide, approximately 125 million people are of Japanese descent, making them one of the largest ethnic groups. Approximately 120.8 million Japanese people are residents of Japan,^[1] and there are approximately 4 million members of the Japanese diaspora, known as Nikkeijin (日系人).^[39]

In some contexts, the term "Japanese people" may be used to refer specifically to the Yamato people, who are primarily from the historically principal islands of Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku and constitute by far the largest group. In other contexts, the term may include other groups native to the Japanese archipelago, including Ryukyuan people, who share connections with the Yamato but are often regarded as distinct, and Ainu people.^[40] In recent decades, there has also been an increase in the number of people with both Japanese and non-Japanese roots, including half Japanese people.